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 ...

Sony launched the world's first non-projection, fully transistorized television, the TV8-301, in May 1960, about six years ...

Consider the Regency TR-1, the first transistor radio from TI and IDEA. In late 1954, the four-transistor device went on sale for $49.95. That doesn’t sound like much until you realize that in ...

The transistor radio was one of the first consumer devices that employed solid state materials. See solid state. The Regency TR-1 was the first solid state radio available to the consumer.

Making A Transistor Radio, by [George Dobbs ... the crystal set with its coil wound on a ferrite rod. My first radio. In fact, my first electronic circuit. It is easy to believe these days ...

It was late afternoon at a conference for the Institute of Radio Engineers ... and consequently the first company to produce a truly consistent mass-produced transistor. Scientists knew about ...

Regency TR-1 (1954) – Not a television but a significant precursor to transistorized consumer electronics, the Regency TR-1 was the first commercially available transistor radio. It proved that ...

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'.