A transistor radio is a small portable radio receiver that uses transistor-based circuitry. Previous portable radios used vacuum tubes, which were bulky...
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Transistor Radio is the fourth studio album by M. Ward. The first track is an instrumental cover of a track from The Beach Boys album Pet Sounds. The track...
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amplification, as in the case of a radio receiver, or for rapid switching, as in the case of digital circuits. The transistor replaced the vacuum-tube triode...
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A transistor is a semiconductor device used to amplify or switch electrical signals and power. It is one of the basic building blocks of modern electronics...
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"Transistor Radio" is a comic song written by Benny Hill and Mark Anthony (a pseudonym of producer Tony Hatch), and performed by Hill. The song revolves...
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Nine-volt battery (redirect from Transistor radio battery)
manufactured; a very common size is known as PP3, introduced for early transistor radios. The PP3 has a rectangular prism shape with rounded edges and two...
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arrangements, greatly influenced Ward's own sound and recording practices. Transistor Radio, Ward's fourth album, was released on Merge in 2005, and he served...
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Transistor" (radio edit) "Too Late I'm Dead" CD 3474592 "Twisted Transistor" (radio edit) "Appears" "Twisted Transistor" (Kupper's Elektro-tek radio edit)...
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first mass-produced transistor radio, leading to the mass-market penetration of transistor radios. Over the next 20 years, transistors replaced tubes almost...
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Kennedy earned the nickname "Radio" in the mid-1960s when he began to show up at the school football field with a transistor radio. In 1964, Kennedy befriended...
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The point-contact transistor was the first type of transistor to be successfully demonstrated. It was developed by research scientists John Bardeen and...
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junction transistor (BJT) is a type of transistor that uses both electrons and electron holes as charge carriers. In contrast, a unipolar transistor, such...
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Regency TR-1 (category 1954 in radio)
The Regency TR-1 was the first commercially manufactured transistor radio, introduced in 1954. Despite mediocre performance, about 150,000 units were sold...
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Sony (category History of radio)
This electronics company, known for creating products such as the transistor radio TR-55, the home video tape recorder CV-2000, the portable audio player...
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TR-55 (category 1955 in radio)
commercially available transistor radio. The use of transistors allowed the device to be much smaller than earlier vacuum tube radios. Akio Morita and Masaru...
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world's first commercial silicon transistor in 1954, and the same year designed and manufactured the first transistor radio. Jack Kilby invented the integrated...
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Holland (album) (redirect from Magic Transistor Radio)
Bed" B. Wilson 1:39 13. "Magic Transistor Radio" B. Wilson 1:43 14. "I'm the Pied Piper" B. Wilson, C. Wilson 2:09 15. "Radio King Dom" B. Wilson, Rieley...
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post-1932 commercial radios were superhets, and this technology is still in widespread use in radio receivers today, implemented with transistors or integrated...
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mid-1970s. Transistor radio - an older term for a portable pocket-sized broadcast radio receiver. Made possible by the invention of the transistor and developed...
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using the transistor, then a popular application for the technology, suggesting that it would be difficult to apply the technology to radio. While most...
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Their first product was a vacuum tube radio released in 1955, and their first transistor radio was the KR-6TS-1 radio released in the spring of 1957 at the...
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AM broadcasting (redirect from AM broadcast radio)
revolutionary transistor radio (Regency TR-1, the first transistor radio released December 1954), which was made possible by the invention of the transistor in 1948...
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The field-effect transistor (FET) is a type of transistor that uses an electric field to control the current through a semiconductor. It comes in two types:...
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Dynatron Radio Ltd. in 1981. The R66 portable valve radio was launched by Roberts in 1956, followed by their first portable transistor radio the RT1 in...
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The surface-barrier transistor is a type of transistor developed by Philco in 1953 as an improvement to the alloy-junction transistor and the earlier point-contact...
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Transistor may also refer to: Transistor (311 album), 1997 "Transistor" (song), the title track by the band 311 from the album Transistor Transistor (TNT...
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VEF Spidola (category Radio in the Soviet Union)
(Latvian: VEF Spīdola, Russian: ВЭФ Спидола) was the first mass-produced transistor radio with short wave band in the Soviet Union (tube short wave receivers...
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first transistor radio, and the first to be made in Japan. The use of transistors allowed the device to be much smaller than earlier vacuum tube radios. Utility...
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among themselves to prevent snow-blindness. They found a small AM transistor radio jammed between two aircraft seats. Roy Harley improvised a long antenna...
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watch design, while the original iPod closely resembles the Braun T3 transistor radio. In Gary Hustwit's 2009 documentary film Objectified, Rams states that...
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