Before there was the first iPod and before the Walkman, there was the transistor radio. It didn’t need big vacuum tubes, so it made carrying a lightweight, more mobile listening device possible.

First Commercial Transistor Radio - 1954. The Regency TR-1 was the first solid state radio available to the public. The radio's 3x5" size and 12-ounce weight were compelling features even though ...

Sony launched the world's first non-projection, fully transistorized television, the TV8-301, in May 1960, about six years after Texas Instruments and Regency introduced the first transistor radio.

Special: The Transistor at 75. The future began 75 years ago with the invention of something small that’s now considered the most manufactured item in human history and the biggest thing since fire.

The first transistor radio, the Regency TR-1 ($49.95, around $576 in today’s money), appeared that same year in a variety of bright, cool colors designed to entice teenagers. “Solid state” soon became ...

Work began in earnest in the spring of 1954, and this first Regency transistor radio was in stores for the Christmas season later that year. The Regency model TR-1 contained four transistors. Capable ...

My first battery-powered radio — a ten-transistor Realtone — came from my Aunt Ina when I was about seven. I used to think I was ten, but the songs from 1973 would be wrong: I distinctly ...

The transistor radio went mainstream at about the same time the Dodgers arrived in Los Angeles in 1958, timing so fortuitous that Scully called it “one of the biggest breaks” the team and its ...

Today, is the seventy seventh anniversary of the demonstration of the first ever transistor, the semi-conductor device that amplifies or switches electrical signals and power. That demonstration ...