Transistor Radios

2/07/2008

In 1954 the first transistor radio was released. It was the Regency TR-1, a small piece of equipment very advanced for its time. Sony followed quickly and one year after that they launched the TR-55 branded as a “pocket transistor radio”. By that time Japanese engineers were not as good at miniaturization as they are today, that radio was way bigger than the Regency and by no means fitted inside a shirt pocket.

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¿What did Sony do about it? Well, they took the easy way and made a new shirt for their sellers where the transistor could easily fit. As we say in Spanish, if Muhammad does not go to the mountain, the mountain will go to Muhammad.

And all this is just an excuse to introduce Michael Jack and his freakin’ amazing collection of transistor radios.

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All of them are pictured there, on his flickr account. It’s like… unbelievable.

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