Coherer Receiver - Marconi's first wireless receiver
Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co. Ltd.
- Country
- Great Britain (UK)
- Manufacturer / Brand
- Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co. Ltd.
- Year
- 1896
- Category
- Detector-Radio (Crystal or diode, without tubes/transistors)
- Radiomuseum.org ID
- 323042
- Power type and voltage
- Dry Batteries
- Material
- Metal case
- from Radiomuseum.org
- Model: Coherer Receiver - Marconi's first wireless receiver - Marconi's Wireless Telegraph
- Shape
- Tablemodel, Box - most often with Lid (NOT slant panel).
- Dimensions (WHD)
- 290 x 290 x 260 mm / 11.4 x 11.4 x 10.2 inch
- Notes
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One of the first wireless receivers, made by Marconi in 1896. It was used in his celebrated public demonstration of wireless in London’s Toynbee Hall in 1896.
A coherer was linked to a device such as a recorder or a bell to register the signal and to a ‘tapper’. A mechanical tap to the coherer released its metal filings, making it non-conductive and ready to receive the next signal.
Mounted in a steel box with front lid are the Coherer, tapper, relay and battteries, all mounted on a teak panel the slides out of the box.
Powered from 6, Obach's Patent batteries in series.
The relay is a Siemens Bros. & Co./London No. 12797.
- Mentioned in
- -- Collector info (Sammler) (Museum of the History of Science: Marconi Collection: Inv Num 86390)
- Author
- Model page created by Gary Cowans. See "Data change" for further contributors.
- Other Models
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Here you find 94 models, 92 with images and 17 with schematics for wireless sets etc. In French: TSF for Télégraphie sans fil.
All listed radios etc. from Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co. Ltd.