Carbon nanotubes have a sound future in the electronics industry, say researchers who built the world’s first all-nanotube transistor radios to prove it. The nanotube radios, in which nanotube devices ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

@Michael Jack. An iPod with the Regency TR-1 in red (1954-55) and TR-4 (black). Recording engineer and music producer Michael Jack has amassed an amazing collection of 1,100 transistor radios.

These days, an iPod with two ear buds typically provides portable music for the young and young-at-heart. Half a century ago, however, it was one plug in the ear, and the other end of the wire ran to ...

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 ...

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 ...

I'm a huge fan of technology advancement, in nearly all cases. But there are times when I wish the steady march of innovation wouldn't leave certain products obsolete. A few weeks ago, I faced a major ...

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 ...

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 ...