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.

The humble transistor radio is one of those consumer devices that stubbornly refuses to go away, but it’s fair to say that it’s not the mover and shaker in the world of electronics it might on ...

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 ...

Of course, a transistor in a telephone or in a radio has to handle complex signals. The output contact can't just amplify a steady hum of current, it has to dutifully replicate a person's voice ...

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Photo: Sarah Kobos Along the rim of the clock, you’ll find buttons for immediate access to the radio (shown here), lamp mode, and two preset alarms. Photo: Sarah Kobos The speaker on the back of ...

Friday, hundreds of college radio stations from around the world were playing around the clock for College Radio Day, and a ...

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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'.