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.

The museum’s collection is a veritable treasure trove of communication history. From crystal sets to vacuum tubes, from early ...

Nelson Rodriguez likes to tell people that as a child growing up in the Bronx, he had a transistor radio practically plugged ...

or an old hit our parents or grandparents rocked to on a Walkman or transistor radio — and it moves and moves until even the old-school gatekeepers have to pay attention because it’s about to ...

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'.

Amateur (ham) radio saved my life. Every year, hams over the world work, in fact save many, often hundreds of lives through ...

Mick Fleetwood, the Black Keys' Patrick Carney, and Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy are just some of the artists drawn to the whimsical ...

In 1960, nearly half of America's population is under 18 years old. It's a young society ... The Beatles are heard everywhere: pocket-sized transistor radios, eight-track stereos in cars, and ...

Thick catalogs that were filled with dreams and imagination for young minds and hearts (not to mention clothes, appliances, ...