Texas Instruments beat them to market with a transistor radio, the Regency TR-1, in 1954, but in 1955, Sony produced the TR-55. Of the five transistors inside, some were alloyed transistors ...

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 ...

Just as digital camera makers would with megapixels four or five decades later, makers of transistor radios would cram as many transistors as they could into their products in a game of one-upmanship.

Richard Upchurch heard his dad say this constantly growing up. So when his beloved sixties-era Sony transistor radio broke, a young Upchurch didn’t purchase a new one; instead, he cracked it ...

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 ...