Setting out to make the world's smallest transistor radio, it marketed a pocket-size one in 1957
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another pretty. from the 60s. | the geeky stuff | Pinterest | Radios ...  Transistor Radio, 1960s - couldn't have lived without one. .... Used to lay in bed at night and listen to WLS out of Chicago. .... When Sony released its pocket-sized radio in 1957, it was marketed as the world's smallest transistor radio. ...... Westinghouse H-698P7, a large American-made coat pocket set circa late 1950s.
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Transistor Radio, 1960s | Vintage transistor radios | Pinterest ...  Vintage Transistor Radio - Handle flips over to create a stand; very cool. - (mid century modern, space age, atomic era, quasar, galactic)...
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Free Flashcards about BUSINESS & INDUSTRY - StudyStack  SETTING OUT TO MAKE THE WORLD'S SMALLEST TRANSISTOR RADIO, IT MARKETED A POCKET-SIZE ONE IN 1957, SONY. THIS BRAND NAME...
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transistor radio... 1957. | Sound Garden | Pinterest | Radios, Sony et ...  Transistor radio Sony TR-63 (1957) Got my first one in 1960. ... Philips Cassette Car Radio ad, 1968..haha...this was a big deal to have in my day .... I had one with a leather case with holes to let the sound out. ...... When Sony released its pocket-sized radio in 1957, it was marketed as the world's smallest transistor radio.
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Sony TR-63 Transistor Radio Teardown - iFixit  Oct 13, 2009 ... Here's a Sony TR-63 transistor radio - I forgot I had one until reminded of ... The TR-63 was introduced in 1957 - it was the first "pocket-sized" transistor radio ever ... Follow along with this teardown to get a look into an important piece of .... Carefully lift out the earphone jack assembly and set it aside from the...
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The Hidden FM Radio Inside Your Pocket, And Why You Can't Use It ...  Apr 16, 2015 ... You may not know it but most of today's smartphones have FM radios inside of them. But the FM chip is not activated on two-thirds of devices.
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Walkie-Talkie to Compete in CBC Television special "The Greatest ...  CBC has linked to Guy's article on the HyperStealth site "Development of the ... was invented in 1933, by a team of U.S. Army technicians in Monmouth, N.J. ... Gross claimed to have invented the two-way portable radio in 1938, although by that time ... He worked as a civilian with the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals, which...
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A 35th-anniversary salute to Radio Shack's TRS-80 - CNN.com  Aug 6, 2012 ... Breaking News ... Radio Shack's TRS-80 was one of 1977s trinity of early consumer PCs ... Those of you who mentioned the legendary Apple II -- that's fine. ... the time: Like Apple's Apple I, it only became the I after a II was introduced. .... 1983s TRS-80 Model 100, the first successful notebook computer,...
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Bill Lear - Wikipedia  William Powell "Bill" Lear (June 26, 1902  May 14, 1978) was an American inventor and ... One summer he spent with his father in Tulsa, re-building a Model-T car. ... of the QRS Company was so impressed by Lear's radio set designed around a ... names for the product on a cross-country trip and came up with "Motorola"...
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This Is the World's First TV Ad - Mashable  Aug 1, 2013 ... The first TV commercial -- the first legal one, at any rate -- aired in the U.S. on July 1, 1941. ... Bulova's first TV ad didn't reach nearly as many people. ... 1928, the FCC didn't grant commercial licenses to TV stations until May 2, 1941. ... However these days, the brand is breaking the ads the way many do in...
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50 years ago, touch-tone phones began a communication revolution ...  Nov 17, 2013 ... 1963: AT&T makes touch-tone service available, first in Carnegie and ... That was just to dial a number, ticked out one deliberate digit at a time,...
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Akio Morita: Guru of Gadgets - TIME  Dec 7, 1998 ... The co-founder and chairman of the board had suffered a stroke. ... 1 brand name by American consumers, ahead of Coca-Cola and General Electric. ... One of Sony's first products was a transistor radio, produced in 1955. ... He noticed people listening to music in their cars and carrying large stereos to the...
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Free Flashcards about BUSINESS & INDUSTRY - StudyStack  IN 1984 THIS AMERICAN COMPANY INTRODUCED THE FIRST MINIVAN, CHRYSLER. INTUIT'S CHECKBOOK PROGRAM; IT WAS FIRST .... IT TOOK VERY LITTLE DISPOSABLE INCOME TO BUY THE DISPOSABLE PEN THIS CO. INTRODUCED TO THE U.S. IN 1958, BIC. EUGENE SCHUELLER, WHO INVENTED A...
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The Advance of "Wireless" (1905) - United States Early Radio History  Even the London Times has published wireless messages. ... A number of ships have already been saved by wireless warnings. Finding .... Receivers are adjusted to take only oscillations of the ether occupying a definite period. ... The new device, called a "responder," allows an ordinary telephone-receiver to be used for...
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August 3, 1977: The TRS-80 Personal Computer Goes on Sale | At ...  Aug 3, 2010 ... Radio Shack's TRS-80 personal computer, courtesy of the ... It was with minimal expectations that, on August 3, 1977, Tandy Corporation teamed up with Radio Shack ... on the market; the burgeoning prospects of a new era in personal ... Even if you bought a machine that was pretty much self-functioning...
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September 5, 2008  ... for "broadcast" to make this word podcast It was named because it's a resistor that can "amplify electrical signals... transferred through it" transistor The product...
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The Tragic Birth of FM Radio  Damn Interesting  Aug 10, 2006 ... He won a patent for FM radio in 1933, and the following year he did his first field test ... The AM broadcast was static-filled and the FM broadcast was clean and rich. ... Through the years Armstrong's widow would bring twenty-one patent ..... In the early 60's, I recall listening to FM stations on my father's new...
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Orphans of Invention: Great Minds, Small Money - The New York ...  Mar 9, 1997 ... ... of Jell-O every second, but this jiggly wonder had more modest prospects in 1897. That's when Pearl B. Wait, a carpenter and cough medicine maker ... out a well-groomed sales force that distributed free dessert molds, as well as Jell-O ... Raytheon introduced the first commercial microwave oven in 1947.
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TRS-80 - Wikipedia  The TRS-80 Micro Computer System is a desktop microcomputer launched in 1977 and sold by Tandy Corporation through their Radio Shack stores. The name is an abbreviation of Tandy/Radio Shack, Z-80 microprocessor. It was one of the earliest mass-produced personal computers. .... The company advertised "The $599 personal computer" as "the most...
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Think Small - Wikipedia  Think Small was one of the most famous ads in the advertising campaign for the Volkswagen Beetle, art directed by Helmut Krone. The copy for Think Small was written by Julian Koenig at the Doyle Dane Bernbach (DDB) agency in 1959. ... was ranked as the best advertising campaign of the twentieth century by Ad Age,...
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Sony - Wikipedia  In 1946, Masaru Ibuka started an electronics shop in a department store building in Tokyo. ... In the following year he was joined by his colleague, [clarification needed] Akio Morita, and they founded a company called Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo  (Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation).