Sony was to become one of the world’s biggest corporations, and was one of the very first to emerge from postwar Japan, devastated by two atomic bombs and the relentless firebombing that came just ...

Services for Edward C. Tudor, 69, whose electronics firm invented the first pocket transistor radio, will be at 4 p.m. Monday in the chapel at 4007 Joliet Ave., Lyons. Mr. Tudor, a third cousin of ...

Old portable music tech felt sturdy. You could drop your player while on roller blades and not worry about a costly cracked ...

Individual words are basic communication tools that when put together in the proper order can express thoughts and ideas. When you put certain words together, they can be magical. Back in the 1960s, ...

It wasn’t big, it could cost about $500 in today’s terms, and it was utterly revolutionary. Today it might not seem like much, but this little gadget changed radio — and arguably youth culture itself ...

The invention of the transistor revolutionized radio, allowing receivers to be made far more compact and portable than ever before. In the middle of the 20th century, the devices exploded in ...

And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: October 18th, 1954, 61 years ago today ... the day Dick Tracy's wristwatch radio came its closest yet to reality. For that was the day Texas ...

If you are a certain age, you might remember the pocket transistor radio. You could take it anywhere. Under the covers at night, to school, to church. Limited only by your capacity for risk, you could ...

OCTOBER 18, 1954: Transistor radios hit the shelves on this day in 1954 – and went on to sell billions and become the most popular electronic communication device in history. Texas Instruments’ ...

So What Was the Transistor Good For? Transistors may have been useful to the phone company and to a handful of scientists building computers, but that wasn't enough to build an industry. Companies ...