Texas Instruments beat them to market with a transistor radio, the Regency TR-1, in 1954, but in 1955, Sony produced the TR ... The radios were on sale for about 19,000 yen (the TR-1 cost about ...

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 ...

When you think of Sony, you probably think of a technology ... it was not feasible to use the crude devices in a radio.

Our experts at Business2Community have compiled the key dates and products in the history of Sony, all the way from its first transistor radio to its industry-leading products. Sony belongs to a ...

The end of the 1950s ushered in the second age of novelty radios. “Advances in plastics and the invention of the transistor allowed novelty radios ... and one soon finds lots of vintage novelty radios ...

Sound is 50% off the movie-watching experience. You can have the best picture in the world available, but it won’t leave it’s ...

Sony launched the world's first non-projection ... some six years after Texas Instruments and Regency brought the first transistor radio to market. Designed to be portable, the TV8 featured ...

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

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 ...

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'.