Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for April 05, 2015
Transcript:
WWII soldiers fashioned radios that did not require electricity using a razor blade and pencil as a diode. I don't see it!? The chemical compound penguinone is so named since its structure resembles a penguin! In 2011, a fisherman in Mexico slit open the belly of a pregnant dusky shark and found a baby Cyclops shark inside.
Templo S.U.D. almost 10 years ago
A cyclops shark sure sounds bizarre. How does a razor blade and a pencil help operate a WW2 radio? No comment on penguinone.
St. Pillsbury almost 10 years ago
Those radio receivers were similar to the " cat’s whisker" crystal radio receivers from the 1920’s. They were powered by the strength of the transmission signal.
Get fuzzy 4527 almost 10 years ago
They had to steal the headphones from the radio operator to complete the circuit
CeeJay almost 10 years ago
I got my first crystal radio by ordering it from the back of a cereal box. It was cheap. It worked.I loved it.
comixbomix almost 10 years ago
I guess those two sharks only “did it” just the one time…