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- What is that word?
- I guess it was true back then
- A Boy and His Dog
- Exit with caution
- It's the age old problem
- Holy Family
- Re: Catholic families
- Palm Sunday
- Car ID suggestions
- Colorized Version
- Catholic families
- The Wreck of Old Number Nine
- Miscellany
- Respecting the law and enjoying sausage.
- Cheersh
- St. Joseph's Catholic Church
- Now Jim Thorpe, PA
- Keep 'er Still
- Or perhaps Henry
- Juliette, Lee and Thomas
- Too bad
- Sock pioneer
- Common European 'thing'
- Droopy socks
- Markov Process with Spatially Dependent Rate
- Up Your Hose
- By jove, I think I've found it
- Socks May Have Been Different Then
- It's what's for lunch
- Good News
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Radio Nut: 1924
June 1924. Washington, D.C. "Radio nut -- this set with everything necessary for receiving music and speech by radio has been put into a coconut shell. It was built by H. Zamora, a native of Manila, Philippine Islands." Marketing suggests we call this the iNut. Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. View full size.
The message:
Submit, puny Earthlings! Resistance is futile.
Cast-off Cabinetry
There's a long-standing tradition among the real nuts of radio -- ham radio operators -- of building homebrew circuitry into odd, discarded containers. Tuna fish cans are a favorite, although things get a little funky once the resistors heat up... what's that smell? Margarine tubs, cereal boxes -- hams are nothing if not thrifty.
The cat's whisker
The gizmo that she's fondling is likely to be the cat's whisker, a metal pin that is poked onto a galena crystal to make a crude rectifier for demodulating the AM signal. It needs to be moved now and then to get good audio. At least it's something to do.
Banana phones?
I suppose their clocks were powered by potatoes.
Staring eyes
Looks as if she is receiving messages from outer space!
Gilligan's Island
The Professor did this practically every week.
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