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It was certainly the first kind of radio receiver to become popular with the average person during radio's formative years, although whether it is what all the inventors used is doubtful. We do know that in the first several years of commercial broadcasting (1920-22), if you wanted a radio receiver, you generally had to build your own. The crystal detector was the easiest set to build, and it received a signal fairly well. Crystal sets became very popular in that era before tubes, and before there were a lot of stations on the air. Crystal sets were not sophisticated, but they got the job done until something better came along.

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