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 ...

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 ...

Texas Instruments beat them to market with a transistor radio, the Regency TR-1 ... It is a fascinating look into the history of an iconic electronics brand and a window into another world ...

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

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 ...

The TR82 transistor radio was first manufactured in 1959 and proved to be immensely popular. The fact that it was portable made it particularly attractive to teenagers. The design was created by ...

The summer was magical, but the season can be summed up by 6½ games with 12 to play. No pennant. No World Series. And little ...

Beyond the power variant, it sometimes seems as though we rarely encounter a discrete transistor these days, such has been the advance of integrated electronics. But they have a rich history ...

The black sky emptied as about 50,000 rain-soaked University of Colorado football fans exhaled in improbable joy at Folsom ...

Eight months after ending its reign as Alaska’s longest-running live radio program, “Problem Corner” resumed pretty much like ...

The 26th annual Pasadena Latino Heritage Parade and Festival is scheduled for Saturday. The parade and festival celebrate ...

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'.