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 ...

The resultant Melody Cruiser is a bit weird, but it works. The end of the 1950s ushered in the second age of novelty radios. “Advances in plastics and the invention of the transistor allowed novelty ...

securing a license to produce transistors was difficult in the early days. What’s worse is, even with the license, it was not feasible to use the crude devices in a radio.

followed quickly by transistor radios. The computer industry immediately began designing computers using transistors that were faster, smaller, more economical, and more powerful.

Making A Transistor Radio, by [George Dobbs, G3RJV] is one of the huge series of books published in the UK under the Ladybird imprint that were a staple of British childhoods for a large part of ...

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 ...

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 ...

America’s biggest pharmacy chains are closing hundreds of stores, laying off thousands of workers and rethinking their role ...

Walgreens plans to close 1,200 stores over the next three years, the pharmacy chain said on Tuesday. It's part of the company's plan for a turnaround, as it faces retail competition and lower ...

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'.

Walgreens says about a quarter of its stores are unprofitable. Big pharmacy chains are struggling with growing retail ...

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 ...