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From: ISW@cup.portal.com (Isaac S Wingfield)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: wireless electricity
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Date: 1 May 89 05:15:32 GMT
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Greg Wageman writes:

Hmm, I guess you must be too young to remember crystal radios?  These
were radios that used a diode (originally, a germanium crystal and a
                                             ^^^^^^^^^
Nope. Iron pyrites (fool's gold).

Isaac    isw@cup.portal.com