We Rediscover Spark Gap Radio by Accident - YouTube
youtube.com · 2,434 words · saved by 1 readers
Follow along using the transcript. Follow along using the transcript.
It's 1890 all over again in the lab. By complete accident, I find myself the new owner of a high voltage box that turns out to be a vintage Xenon lamp sparker. Not only do we make it work, but we use it to retrace the critical experiments that led to the discovery of radio, using the lamp starter as the spark gap transmitter, and a coherer as the receiver. Ken’s blog article gives more details about the reverse engineering of the Siemens sparker: https://www.righto.com/2020/03/repairing-vintage-40-kilovolt-xenon.html Our sponsor for PCBs: https://www.pcbway.com Support the team on…
saved by
related reading
- Marconi Spark Gap Transmitter Demonstrationyoutube.com
- Earliest Wireless in Bay Area: Bart Lee @ Bay Area Radio Museum, Alameda, CA.youtube.com
- The Arc Transmitter (Poulsen Arc) and the Titanicyoutube.com
- Microwave HamTV From Space (Not SSTV)youtube.com
- Electricity Does Not "Split" H₂O. And That's VERY Useful.youtube.com
- How to Build an AM Radio Receivercircuitbasics.com
- Some interesting open problems in technology | Locklin on sciencescottlocklin.wordpress.com
- The Electric Slide - by Packy McCormick and Sam D'Amiconotboring.co
- DIY sonar scanner (practical experiments)youtube.com
- Fifty Things you can do with a Software Defined Radio 📻blinry.org
- I Saved an Electron Microscope from the Trashyoutube.com
- My journey to the microwave alternate timeline — LessWronglesswrong.com