Happy 50 th birthday to the transistor radio. For the last half-century we’ve embraced transistor radios, loved them, made them part of our lives and even took them for granted. But back in 1954, the ...

Cell phones are a big deal, but to some of us the transistor was an even bigger deal. I was disobeying my parents staying up ...

When a Hackaday article proclaims that its subject is a book you should read, you might imagine that we would be talking of a seminal text known only by its authors’ names. Horowitz and Hill, perhaps, ...

It wasn’t big, it could cost about $500 in today’s terms, and it was utterly revolutionary. Today it might not seem like much, but this little gadget changed radio — and arguably youth culture itself ...

If you cultivate an interest in building radios it’s likely that you’ll at some point make a simple receiver. Perhaps a regenerative receiver, or maybe a direct conversion design, it’ll take a couple ...

Had Capitol Records stuck to its original launch plan for the Beatles' "I Want to Hold your Hand," the insanity which gripped American teens could never have happened in time for the Ed Sullivan ...

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 ...

Today pocket transistor radios manufactured in the 1950s are very collectable. Some models are highly sought after by collectors and regularly sell for hundreds of dollars. It is not uncommon to find ...

Baldwinsville, NY -- In 1953, the cutting edge of technology was the transistor, and General Electric’s plant in Salina was where theory was being turned into reality. A team of engineers led by ...

And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: October 18th, 1954, 61 years ago today ... the day Dick Tracy's wristwatch radio came its closest yet to reality. For that was the day Texas ...

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 ...