The first transistor radio to make it to market wasn’t GE’s, but the Regency TR-1, built with Texas Instrument parts. GE’s Model 678 hit shelves a few months later.

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 ...

Texas Instruments' Regency TR-1, the first commercial transistor radio, on display at the American History Museum Photo courtesy museum For the first 50 years after its invention, the radio was ...

The first transistor radio was a joint project between the Regency Division of Industrial Development Engineering Associates and Texas Instruments. TI knew that it needed a fun product to catch ...

On October 18, 1954, the TR-1, the first radio that could fit into your pocket, was unveiled. ... Small though it was, the transistor radio sparked a very big change in our popular culture.

It should; 60 years ago the first portable transistor radio went on sale. The Regency TR1 was the first consumer device to use transistors. According to Fortune Magazine, " If you owned one, you ...

The first day of school, exams, dating, awkward holidays with distant relatives. Speaking to young people I find that, even though some of that remains, important elements of childhood appear to be ...

You hear nothing but your radio. – “On Your Radio,” Richard Lanham, 1957 ON WEDNESDAY, June 29, 1948, Bell Labs called a press conference at its West St. headquarters to announce it had ...

Gary Krakow looks at a very special wind-up radio, the Freeplay Lifeline, as we celebrate the 50th birthday of the first transistor radio, the Regency TR-1.

We expect radio to be with us wherever we go, whether it's at home, in the car or out on a walk. This year marks the 50th anniversary of a development that exponentially increased radio's ...

The transistor radio went mainstream at about the same time the Dodgers arrived in Los Angeles in 1958, timing so fortuitous that Scully called it “one of the biggest breaks” the team and its ...

The Maysle Brothers’ film documentary about the Beatles’ first U.S. visit shows the band members taking their Pepsi-branded transistor radio everywhere, listening both collectively and on ...