Stern went to work proving that transistors could replace tubes in a radio. Working at the Electronic Laboratory, the team created GE’s first prototype of a transistor radio. On Friday ...

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 ...

It’s interesting that one of the first applications envisioned for the transistor was a compact portable radio. Bell licensed transistor technology to other companies; one of these was Texas ...

It wasn’t until Oct. 18, 1954, that Texas Instruments introduced the first mass-produced transistor radio aimed at consumers. The TR-1, it was called, and it was made by the Regency division of ...

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 went mainstream at about the same time ... breaks” the team and its broadcasters could get. For their first four seasons in Los Angeles, the Dodgers played in the cavernous ...

“The first digital use of the transistor for consumers was in a calculator,” says Rick Bensene, curator of the Old Calculator Web Museum.

Today, is the seventy seventh anniversary of the demonstration of the first ever transistor ... but especially to the invention of the transistor radio which was so important a part of my youth.

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 public.