On Gilligan’s Island the Professer (or Roy to his friends) did a lot of experiements. Most were bogus. Obviously you can’t cure radiation by eating soap, or fill a tooth with a copper penny.
What experiements, if any, were workable. Like can you really recharge, chargeable batteries, by stirring seawater quickly in coconut shells?
Obviously that should have been experiments.
Any clue???
OH! Now I get it! You mean “experiements” = “experiments”
That explains why no one has posted to this thread!
[Sorry Markxxx I’m feelin’ smartassy this a.m.; I actually really like your question.]
Well, for what it’s worth, I fixed the subject line, but I doubt it’ll make a difference.
On to the question, though, I don’t think that enough details were ever given to say. Most of the time, you see him just mixing gourd-beakers of various unspecified chemicals, and coming up with something which is claimed to have a particular effect. Maybe the appropriate raw materials could be found on your typical tropical island… But since we don’t know what the raw materials were, we can’t say for sure.
Crude batteries can be made with acidic fruit juice & pieces of metal. So that might work.
But I doubt it.
As Bob Denver was once quoted as saying:
I remember in one episode the skipper (not the professor!) turned the AM radio into a transmitter by “reversing the transistors,” or something like that. Uh, not hardly.
IIRC, the copper penny being melted into a filling COULD be done, but the recepient would suffer from severe copper poisoning.
Actually, turning a reciever into a transmitter is one of the few things they showed that could be done: The trick is just in getting a big enough power supply. I would have mentioned that, but of course, it wasn’t the Professor that did it.
For those who are wondering, by the way, he learned it in his Navy days, but only remembered how to do it following a bump on the head. Of course, later in the episode, the transmitter fails somehow, and he gets another bump in the head, so he can’t fix it.
I agree it would be possible, but my point was that simply “reversing the transistors” wouldn’t cut it; you would have to tear out just about every component and build a transmitter circuit (amplitude modulator, etc.). But even if you could do it, you would still need another receiver, because an AM radio won’t have enough components to build a genuine transceiver.