THE SMALLEST WIRELESS RECIEVER
The latest British wireless invention is a portable wiroless telegraph receivor. The wliolo apparatus—receiving ooil, tuniu" condenser, two valve detectors, accumulator dry battery, transformers, and reaction coil —goes into a box which is only fourteen, inches long, thirteen inches broad, and five inches deep. Iho cover of tho box lifts off its hinges and forms a base with a pivot on which the rccoiver can bo rotated so as to got' tho strongest signals according to the direoCTon ini which the waves are coming. A compass card on the cover enables tho receiver to bo set In tho correct position for receiving from certain stations. With tins little appliance, wheh weighs only 201b., signals can be read in Great Britain from stations in France and Germany as well as in England, without any additional wires. The signals, which are read in a telephono, aro olcarly audible in a reaoonably quiet rooa,
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 265, 3 August 1920, Page 5
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155THE SMALLEST WIRELESS RECIEVER Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 265, 3 August 1920, Page 5
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