IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Before 1954, so-called portable radio ...

This piece by Steve Greenberg is part of a series of essays to mark the 50th anniversary of the Beatles' first American television appearance on CBS's "The Ed Sullivan Show." It culminates with CBS ...

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 ...

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 ...

Small vacuum tube portable radios were available in the early 1950s. Most of these were lunch box size with a carry handle on the top. Many had plastic cases, which made them lighter and more colorful ...

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 ...

An old — on second thought, make that “very old” — Sony AM/FM broadcast transistor, which I somehow acquired, finally got a little too cranky for me, Figure 1. The analog-dial tuning knob was sluggish ...

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 ...

Growing up is daunting. All those “rites of passage” through which we must travel. The first day of school, exams, dating, awkward holidays with distant relatives. Speaking to young people I find that ...

Before the MP3 was the Walkman and before that was the "tranny" - the transistor radio. Personal radios existed before their mass popularity in the 1960's, but then they became a teenage 'must-have'.

A handheld AM or FM radio. All handheld radios, as well as desktop radios, use transistors, both discrete as well as contained in chips. The transistor radio was one of the first consumer devices that ...