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One of the great things about our growing number of local low-powered community FM stations is the ability to find ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Years before Sony was a common name, Masaru Ibuka was just an amateur tinkerer student at Waseda University who liked to fix ...
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 ...
The scientists Aylesworth talked to suggested there were probably additional impurities in the tin to make that first transistor work ... friend who is an amateur radio hobbyist.
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 ...