Transistor radio
Radio de transistores
- Date
- 1954 · confidence high
- Place
- Regency/Texas Instruments, Indianapolis and Dallas, United States; Sony, Tokyo
- Credited to
- Regency TR-1 (Texas Instruments and I.D.E.A.); Sony TR-55 (1955)
- Field
- Communication
What it is
First mass-consumer product based on transistors: a battery-powered pocket radio. It made portable electronics an everyday object.
What it led to
- Youth culture of portable music and rock and roll
- The rise of the Japanese electronics industry (Sony)
- Demand for cheap transistors that financed the semiconductor industry
Built on
Made possible
- Sputnik 1, first artificial satellite1957
- Sony Walkman1979
- portable consumer electronics