Skip Arey writes, “I am very devoted to the radio art and decided to show my devotion by way of Body Art. The tattoo is a copy of a schematic diagram of a basic Crystal Radio taken from page 132 of Practical Wireless Telegraphy by Elmer Bucher published in 1921.”
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"Celebrated curiosity monger"
Carl Zimmer writes about science regularly for the New York Times and magazines such as Discover, where he is a contributing editor and columnist.
He is the author of twelve books, the most recent of which is Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed. His website is carlzimmer.com and his address is blog at carlzimmer dot com .
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February 26th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
you’ll love this:
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/01/make_your_own_vaccum_tube.html
December 8th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
Cool tattoo!
I’ve been a radio fan for years and this symbol is very familliar to me.
I taught a class where I had people build a similar design. A coil, a diode and a piezo unit for a transducer. My tattoo would have a tapped coil instead of the slider type like you have.
The most amazing radio I’ve made has a circuit like this, with a razorblade as the detector.
December 8th, 2009 at 7:27 pm
Amazing tube video Brandy.
This guy has two books you might find interesting:
H. P. Friedrichs-”The Voice of the Crystal” he shows how to make radio parts out of junk around the house.
He also has a book that tells how to make tubes from scratch.