Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for April 05, 2015
April 04, 2015
April 06, 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.
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Templo S.U.D. over 9 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 over 9 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 over 9 years ago
They had to steal the headphones from the radio operator to complete the circuit
CeeJay over 9 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 over 9 years ago
I guess those two sharks only “did it” just the one time…