After two years of frustrating but very exciting ... the industry. The first transistor available to consumers was in hearing aids, followed quickly by transistor radios. The computer industry ...

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.

Making A Transistor ... radio. It’s a book you must read not because it is a seminal work in the vein of Horrowitz and Hill, but because it is the book that will have provided the first ...

Regency TR-1 (1954) – Not a television but a significant precursor to transistorized consumer electronics, the Regency TR-1 was the first commercially available transistor radio. It proved that ...

The first transistor was about half an ... effectively amplifying it. Of course, a transistor in a telephone or in a radio has to handle complex signals. The output contact can't just amplify ...

The first commercial transistor radio was also produced in 1954 ... An Intel manufacturing technician uses a scanner to start the very first 45nm production lot of 300mm wafers inside of Fab ...

If fondue sets, go-go boots, and transistor radios make you remember the “good ... this toy offered endless fun. As the first affordable instant camera, the Polaroid Swinger was wildly popular ...

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.