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.

Making A Transistor Radio, by [George Dobbs, G3RJV] is one of the huge series of books published in the UK under the Ladybird imprint that were a staple of British childhoods for a large part of ...

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 ...

A lament about the demise of AM radio has been rising in the halls of Congress. Several automakers, most notably Tesla and ...

A week after Hurricane Helene devastated parts of the Southeast, residents in some states are still trying to get the very ...

Don’t touch that dial has been coming out of radio stations for decades: a casual plea from disc jockeys and newscasters for ...

A little current can alter the flow of a much bigger one, effectively amplifying it. Of course, a transistor in a telephone or in a radio has to handle complex signals. The output contact can't just ...

Israel.- Avia Levi, former Deputy Chief of Mission and former Israeli Consul in the Dominican Republic, shared a harrowing ...

According to author Daniel Pink, one of the principle human motivators is mastery of something. So even though boredom or rest may be important as a goal, it doesn’t jibe with how human drive is ...

How many folks at high school games will be following Nebraska-Illinois on smart phones? I can’t think of a better way to ...

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'.

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 ...