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 ...

The invention of the transistor revolutionized radio, allowing receivers to be made far more compact and portable than ever before. In the middle of the 20th century, the devices exploded in ...

Here in 2023 the field of electronics covers a breathtaking variety of devices and applications, but if we were to go back in time far enough we’d enter an age in which computers were few and far ...

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 ...

Roger Robinson Webster led the Texas Instruments team that developed the pocket-size transistor radio, the commercial product that ushered in the digital age in 1954. A wizard who built a 1-inch ...

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 ...

A grandfather-of-five has revealed his impressive antique radio and test instrument collection worth up to £15,000. Richard Allan, a retired electrical engineer, has spent the last fifty years ...

As World War II gripped Europe, Winston Churchill knew that the conflict would be fought on two fronts—on the battlefield and in the scientific lab. The race between the Allies and the Axis powers to ...

Sony was to become one of the world’s biggest corporations, and was one of the very first to emerge from postwar Japan, devastated by two atomic bombs and the relentless firebombing that came just ...