Malone The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The Shadow Music Artie Shaw Benny Goodman Bob Crosby Glen Miller Louis Armstrong The Eddie Arnold Show The Ray Anthony Show Theater of Hits Tommy Dorsey Miscellaneous Fireside Chat with Franklin D.
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Danfield Escape Radio Shows Lights Out Quiet Please Suspense Radio Shows The Adventures of Horatio Hornblower The Adventures of Leonidas Witherall The Whistler Sci Fi / Superheros 2000 Plus Batman Blue Beetle Flash Gordon Frankenstein Journey to the Center of the Earth Mind Webs Omar, The Wizard Of Persia Planet Man Superman The Avenger The Falcon X Minus One Western Death Valley Days Fort Laramie Frontier Town Gene Autry Gunsmoke Hopalong Cassidy Red Ryder Roy Rogers Tales Of The Texas Rangers The American Trail The Town Crier Detective Stories Blackstone The Magic Detective Boston Blackie The Adventures of Sam Spade The Amazing Mr. The Transistor Radio Launches the Portable Electronic Age.
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The introduction of television into American.
Japanese manufacturer Sony exported its TR-63 transistor radio to the United States starting in 1957. The Late 1940s and Early 1950s: The Birth of Television and the Rebirth of Radio. It could be used instead of the bulkier vacuum tubes to control the signals that sent radio (see entry under 1920s-TV and Radio in volume 2) broadcasts through the air. A transistor is a small device, about the size of a pencil eraser, that generates and amplifies electric signals. The invention of the transistor in the early 1950s paved the way for a mass-produced pocket radio. The magazine Popular Mechanics had published instructions for building a do-it-yourself pocket radio, using a wooden glove box for the body, in 1925. The first transistor radio (the Regency TR-1) was produced by Regency Electronics in cooperation with Texas Instruments in 1954. American teenagers saw the pocket radios as a way to listen to the driving beat of rock and roll (see entry under 1950s-Music in volume 3) music, away from the judgments of their parents. Small, portable, and convenient, transistor radios did not offer excellence in sound quality, but they did provide another important feature-privacy.
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