Making a Transistor Radio, by [George Dobbs ... If you talk to a British electronic engineer of A Certain Age there is a good chance that this was the volume that first introduced them to their ...

Even the first electronic ... first transistor radios. Further refinements led to the modern "field effect" transistor, which has literally become the nerve cell of the information age.

The audion, or triode, at the heart of the vacuum tube is what the transistor was built to ... been labeled one of the fathers of the "electronic age," since the audion helped start the explosion ...

Regency TR-1 (1954) – Not a television but a significant precursor to transistorized consumer electronics, the Regency TR-1 was the first commercially available transistor radio. It proved that ...