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From: R_Tim_Coslet@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: wireless electricity
Message-ID: <17871@cup.portal.com>
Date: 3 May 89 03:36:37 GMT
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	ISW@cup.portal.com (Isaac S Wingfield) writes:
>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).
>
Sorry, you are BOTH wrong... it was Galena Crystals (Lead Sulfides).

                                        R. Tim Coslet

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