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.

As you’d expect, a transistor radio heading toward its 70th birthday requires a little care to return to its former glory, and while this one is very quiet it does at least work after a fashion.

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.

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 ...

And so they sunk it into commercial stuff like transistor radios. MICHAEL RIORDAN: Yeah. The beginnings of Sony have to do with the first Japanese transistor radio, which came in in the mid– I think ...

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 ...

75 years ago, the transistor ignited the fire of modern innovation. The transistor was born in 1947 at Bell Labs in New Jersey. We’re looking into the culture of innovation that made it possible.

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 ...

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 ...