Since the days of pioneers like Marconi and Armstrong, radio has fascinated countless numbers of engineers. Wireless technology has evolved from the days of bulky, power-hungry vacuum tubes to today’s ...

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Texas Instruments' Regency TR-1, the first commercial transistor radio, on display at the American History Museum Photo courtesy museum For the first 50 years after its invention, the radio was ...

Texas Instruments announced plans for the Regency TR-1, the first transistor radio to be commercially sold, on October 18, 1954. The move was a major one in tech history that would help propel ...