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 ...

Before the MP3 was the Walkman and before that was the "tranny" - the transistor radio. Personal radios existed ... Most of the content on A History of the World is created by the contributors ...

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 ...

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 ...

The TR82 transistor radio was first manufactured in 1959 and ... Most of the content on A History of the World is created by the contributors, who are the museums and members of the public.

It was late afternoon at a conference for the Institute of Radio Engineers ... But, they said, no one should expect a silicon transistor for years. Then Gordon Teal of Texas Instruments stood ...

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 ...

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 ...

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'.