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 ...

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.

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 ...

followed quickly by transistor radios. The computer industry immediately began designing computers using transistors that were faster, smaller, more economical, and more powerful.

(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 ...

This FM AM radio measures 2.7* 5* 1.1inch with weight only 4.2oz (without batteries), close to the size of iPhone 7. More importantly, thanks to its back clip and lanyard, transistor radio is ...

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 ...

20% of cars in the U.S. had built-in radios. In the 1950s, transistor technology made it possible for smaller radios to be installed in the dashboard of over half of the cars on the market.

The '80s was a significant time in the tech world and while some gadgets were just plain odd, here are six that shaped how we ...

Learn more › Whether you’re facing a hurricane or tornado, a blizzard, or an earthquake, you may want what we call a “weather radio” to keep you and your family well-informed throughout ...