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 ...

“Advances in plastics and the invention of the transistor allowed novelty radios to become smaller, more brightly colored and cheaper to buy,” said Zieman. “I’d say their heyday was the 1960s to the ...

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 that employed solid state ...

Calling all Smokey and the Bandit fans: the unsung prop costar/hero of the film is up for grabs. That’s right. Bandit’s CB ...

Pure's latest DAB+ radio, the Classic Mini, is another attractive retro-styled radio from the audio brand. It delivers 15 ...

Over the recent weeks here at Hackaday, we’ve been taking a look at the humble transistor ... A simple FET radio receiver circuit showing FET biasing. The gate is biased at ground potential ...

Their Bay Area hall of fame will an hold awards luncheon Saturday in San Francisco to recognize on-air personalities and ...

20% of cars in the U.S. had built-in radios. In the 1950s, transistor technology made it possible for smaller radios to be installed in the dashboard of over half of the cars on the market.

Of course, a transistor in a telephone or in a radio has to handle complex signals. The output contact can't just amplify a steady hum of current, it has to dutifully replicate a person's voice ...

Also called a "bipolar junction transistor" (BJT), it is one of two major transistor categories; the other is "field-effect transistor" (FET). Although the first transistor was bipolar and the ...

A popular TikToker says that, through his job at Best Buy, he discovered a strange trend about songs that play on radio stations at retail stores. In a viral clip with over 2.8 million views ...

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'.