It's Sixty Years Since the First Portable Transistor Radio Went on the Market and Started a Revolution
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On October 18, 1954 the Regency TR-1 put music in your pocket for the first time.
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In the Shadow of the Wall - American Academy
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The Transistor Radio Nuts & Volts Magazine
Nostalgic Fun Facts On Computing For Each Day of A Year, by Elye
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The History of the Transistor Radio
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Old portable radios were marvels of technology from the 1950s to the 1980s - Click Americana
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It's Sixty Years Since the First Portable Transistor Radio Went on the Market and Started a Revolution
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My Ticket To Ride. Why The Beatles Are The #1 Most…, by Rick Margin
Mountaineer Conrad Anker's First Watch
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Vintage Advertising For The Bulova Valiant 680 Series Transistor Radio In The Intelligencer Journal Newspaper (Lancaster, Pennsylvania), December 12, 1960
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Vintage 1960's Motorola Advertisement for early transistor pocket radio. The first Motorola brand automobile radio was produced in 1930. Motorola began the commercial production of transistors at a new $1.5 million facility
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Transistor radio 1960s hi-res stock photography and images - Alamy
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Vintage Transistor Radios of the 1950s and 60s
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It's Sixty Years Since the First Portable Transistor Radio Went on the Market and Started a Revolution