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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Being hard-up, I think this must have been the point at which I became a radio person. From somewhere, I acquired an ugly old transistor radio with a broken aerial. At night, I could receive all ...

(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 ...

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

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 ...

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Forks, is there anything they can’t do? You can use them to scratch an itch, fend off a weak mugger, get a signal for your transistor radio – and you can eat with them, too, which will be ...