Individual words are basic communication tools that when put together in the proper order can express thoughts and ideas. When you put certain words together, they can be magical. Back in the 1960s, ...

Ernie Baum of Hasbrouck Heights was 13 years old when tragedy struck. “I went with my family to visit my father’s aunt in Manhattan, and someone broke into our car and stole my transistor radio,” he ...

So What Was the Transistor Good For? Transistors may have been useful to the phone company and to a handful of scientists building computers, but that wasn't enough to build an industry. Companies ...

Jones], like us, has a soft spot for the educational electronic kits from days gone by. In a recent video you can see below, ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Carbon nanotubes have a sound future in the electronics industry, say researchers who built the world’s first all-nanotube transistor radios to prove it. The nanotube radios, in ...

Transistors have come a long way. Like everything else electronic, they’ve become both better and cheaper. According to a recent IEEE article, a transistor cost about $8 in today’s money back in the ...

The future began 75 years ago this week with the invention of the transistor. We’ve been looking at the ecosystems of innovation that grew the transistor into the interconnected, digital revolution.

The A.bsolument Vintage Radios are now available thanks to Focal Naim America and when they’re gone — they’re gone. Did you grow up with a transistor radio or boombox? A Panasonic Transistor Radio and ...

My first battery-powered radio — a ten-transistor Realtone — came from my Aunt Ina when I was about seven. I used to think I was ten, but the songs from 1973 would be wrong: I distinctly remember ...

@Michael Jack. An iPod with the Regency TR-1 in red (1954-55) and TR-4 (black). Recording engineer and music producer Michael Jack has amassed an amazing collection of 1,100 transistor radios.

The schematic diagram shows an audio stage with a common-collector circuit. This does not damp the tuned circuit, but instead actually increases its response. This yields good sensitivity and ...

Here is a simple circuit for a one transistor Audion type radio powered by a 1.5 V battery. It employs a set of standard low-impedance headphones with the headphone socket wired so that the two sides ...