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.

Combining the two concepts, they developed a new name: Sony. And the rest, as they say, is history. With the transistor radio, music and information suddenly became portable. No matter how ...

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'.

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 ...

A handheld AM or FM radio. 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 ...

The Transistor is an invention that has literally changed the world as we know it. Without it many of the modern devices would not exist today. All computer processing chips contain 1000's of ...

Between Starck, Zanuso, Sapper and Keith Haring, the radio unfolds its stories in 5 models among those on show at the ADI Design Museum in Milan, 150 years after the birth of its inventor Guglielmo ...

It was late afternoon at a conference for the Institute of Radio Engineers ... But, they said, no one should expect a silicon transistor for years. Then Gordon Teal of Texas Instruments stood ...

some six years after Texas Instruments and Regency brought the first transistor radio to market. Designed to be portable, the TV8 featured an eight-inch black and white display complete with an ...

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BBC History marks its 40th birthday. If you were at home listening to the BBC in the 1930s, what might a radio have looked like? Most sets of the era were major pieces of furniture as we explore ...