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It's Sixty Years Since the First Portable Transistor Radio Went on the Market and Started a Revolution
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It's Sixty Years Since the First Portable Transistor Radio Went on the Market and Started a Revolution
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It's Sixty Years Since the First Portable Transistor Radio Went on the Market and Started a Revolution
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First Portable Superheterodyne Radio Receiver, Made by Edwin Howard Armstrong, 1923 - The Henry Ford
MoMA The Museum of Modern Art - The first transistor radio was released 61 years ago today. Here's Dieter Rams's 1959 design for Braun, on view now in "Making Music Modern: Design
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