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Primitive radio receiver
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coherer
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coherer \Co*her"er\, n. (Elec.) Any device in which an imperfectly conducting contact between pieces of metal or other conductors loosely resting against each other is materially improved in conductivity by the influence of Hertzian waves; -- so called ...
Wikipedia
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The coherer is a primitive form of radio signal detector used in the first radio receivers during the wireless telegraphy era at the beginning of the 20th century. Its use in radio was based on the 1890 findings of French physicist Edouard Branly and adapted ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context physics English) A detector of radio waves used in very early radio receivers.
Usage examples of coherer.
With the Branly coherer as the basis Marconi sought to make improvements which would result in the detector he was seeking.
It's the lingo, the abbreviations, the barnyard to attic chitchat of amateurs with keys, with Marconi coherers or Fessenden barreters-and you can listen for a violin solo pretty soon now.
It's the lingo, the abbreviations, the barnyard to attic chitchat of amateurs with keys, with Marconi coherers or Fessenden barreters-and you can listen for a violin solo pretty soon now.
It had at least five times the range of the old spark gap transmitters and much better sensitivity than coherers or even the newer cat's whisker receivers.
They used spark-gap transmitters and coherers to pick up the signals, and with enough work, I thought I could get one going.
This in turn went to a coherer, which was little more than a glass tube with iron filings in it.