securing a license to produce transistors was difficult in the early days. What’s worse is, even with the license, it was not feasible to use the crude devices in a radio.

That’s from before the time most of us were born and not many years after the invention of the transistor in late ... M QRP transmitter design in a vintage Radio magazine from the late ...

They had to catch the attention of the public. That happened with the hand-held radio. The first transistor radio was a joint project between the Regency Division of Industrial Development ...

All handheld radios, as well as desktop radios, use transistors, both discrete as well as contained in chips. The transistor radio was one of the first consumer devices that employed solid state ...

Before the MP3 was the Walkman and before that was the "tranny" - the transistor radio. Personal radios existed before their mass popularity in the 1960's, but then they became a teenage 'must-have'.

It was used throughout the 1950s and 1960’s in a variety of electronic circuits, most notably for the first transistor radios. Further refinements led to the modern "field effect" transistor ...

(Vintage Radio and Communications Museum of Connecticut, 115 Pierson Lane, Windsor, CT) The home of the largest collection of early radios in the U.S. Founded in 1990 by John Ellsworth, the Radio ...

AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act would require AM radios in electric vehicles, even though automakers claim electric motors ...

A transistor ... 1950s. It's the power of transistors that have fueled the evolution of various electronic gadgets – from portable computers to game consoles, electronic cameras to smartwatches, and ...

Evening entertainment involved listening to the radio again, curling up with a book ... radically change over the last half-century. In the 1950s, a new home cost £2,000 but an office worker's ...

BBC Radio 1 Vintage is a three day digital radio station on air from 30 September to 2 October only on digital radio, online and via the iPlayer Radio app. 1. What is Radio 1 Vintage? BBC Radio 1 ...

Their channel hit the viral spotlight when they posted a video showing off a vintage 1950s stove that can still be used today. Viewers were shocked at just how versatile and efficient these ...