Sentences with phrase «am transistor radio»

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I noticed that one or two students were listening to transistor radios.

By the 1970s and 1980s, Japan extended its domination to the global electronics industry as it manufactured the majority of the world's consumer electronics products and introduced innovative and revolutionary new products such as the pocket transistor radio, the VHS recorder and the Sony Walkman, which created a consumer love affair that was similar to the Apple iPod and iPhone craze of recent years.

And in the villages, the rice paddies are plowed while transistor radios next to the field broadcast the changing prices of oil — which influence fertilizer and marketing costs — along with the latest pop music from all over the world.

Showing my age but the 1 - 0 away to Juventus back in the Jurassic era (Vaessens in about the 89th minute) when NOONE beat Italian teams on their own ground, still means most to me — I was huddled under the duvet listening on a transistor radio pretending I was asleep!

Space travel has been in my blood since I was a kid, holding my transistor radio close to my ear to hear Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landing on the moon in 1969.

Back when transistor radios were hip, Mariner 4 sent these first close - up views of Mars across 134 million miles using a puny 10 - watt radio transmitter.

Britain's first transistor radio, the Pam 710, was sold by Pye in 1956.

This year's fair is rather special because it marks the 40th anniversary of the world's first transistor radio.

Practically every rural homestead has a transistor radio, and rural communities are the target of a sister soap opera for radio, Healing Hearts, which is broadcast twice a day on the three most popular stations — Radio Zulu, Radio Xhosa and Radio Sotho, which between them reach 15.5 million peradio, and rural communities are the target of a sister soap opera for radio, Healing Hearts, which is broadcast twice a day on the three most popular stations — Radio Zulu, Radio Xhosa and Radio Sotho, which between them reach 15.5 million peradio, Healing Hearts, which is broadcast twice a day on the three most popular stations — Radio Zulu, Radio Xhosa and Radio Sotho, which between them reach 15.5 million peRadio Zulu, Radio Xhosa and Radio Sotho, which between them reach 15.5 million peRadio Xhosa and Radio Sotho, which between them reach 15.5 million peRadio Sotho, which between them reach 15.5 million people.

The transistor was developed as part of research IBM is conducting for the U.S. Department of Defense's DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) program to develop high - performance RF (radio frequency) transistors.

Clipped to the strap of my sports bra is a Sunsprite, a little gizmo that looks like a cross between a Fitbit and a transistor radio, which tracks how close I've gotten to the amount of light science suggests can improve mood, boost my alertness, and keep my circadian rhythms (aka my sleep - wake cycles) on track.

Once Sony found a foothold for the transistor in small, cheap, low - power devices, it was able to improve the technology in the decades and years ahead until it was eventually making the TVs and radios that RCA had wanted to sell.

This seems to be a key feature of his theory: The small personal computer did not supplement the large business computer of the early days of the computer revolution, but instead served those who didn't have any computers at all; the transistor - driven small radio was embraced by those who had no other access to radios.

Christensen offers many examples from business history: the large business computer was displaced by the personal computer, the fixed radio set by the small transistor - driven portable.

Writing from a business - school perspective, C&H provide compelling analogies from the world of commerce and industry, the most vivid being SONY's development of the tinny pocket transistor radio, sold to an under - served teen - age market.

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Lights, gauges, and systems are in working order, including a vintage - style push - button AM - FM transistor radio.

A new, user - friendly Uconnect 8.4 - inch radio with touchscreen display is available on all models, while the instrument cluster now features a high - tech appearance with a new customer configurable multiview display, with 7 - inch Thin - Film Transistor (TFT) liquid - crystal technology.

Present on all early ’56 Corvettes are RPO 426 power windows, RPO 102 signal seeking transistor AM radio, RPO 107 parking brake alarm and RPO 108 courtesy lights.

New to the option list was a «Sportable Transistor» radio that could be used in the car in place of the regular «in - dash» radio or removed from the car for use as a portable with battery power.

The «premium» Bose stereo sounds more like someone glued a transistor radio to the dashboard and the TomTom navigation system is extremely buggy, requiring constant updates and is agonizingly slow.

It is powered by its matching - numbers 400ci 8 - cylinder engine mated to a Turbo - Hydramatic transmission and equipped with power steering, power brakes, air conditioning, glove box door lamp, original Oldsmobile transistor radio and day / night mirror.

Now we were curled up in bed at night with transistor radios to our ears, listening to one of the great antiheroes of popular culture, Wolfman Jack, instruct us in the subversive narrative of rock»n' roll.

Will the up - and - coming generation of kids think it's as crazy to invest in an actual textbook as it is to, say, carry around a transistor radio?

And the show begins the very year of Sony's first portable transistor radio, although that device was and is still a marvel.

The display has been modified to generate a sound that accompanies another rhythmic source created by the interference of an energy saving lightbulb and a transistor radio.

This show is on the radio so if you are listening, even reading, you may know about the existence of that life transforming invention, the transistor radio.

In response, he began to create cages in which body parts meld with transistors and circuit boards sprout plastic flowers; boxes in which disembodied eyes stare at magazine pages and ears listen to radios; and greenhouses in which electronics, plants, and body parts are grafted to each other.

«How are we going to get the message through to the front if all we have is this old transistor radio?»

At first I thought it a bit of an obnoxious idea, broadcasting music out into the silent wilderness, but when we're out there and we tune in on small transistor radios, it is pretty cool.

Chu had cut his teeth as a research scientist at the justly famed U.S. government - funded Bell Labs, which he saw as a model because they were responsible for inventing or developing a range of devices now part of the fabric of American life, from fax machines to TV transmission, radio astronomy, solar panel cells, the transistor, calculators, cell phones, Wi - Fi, and hundreds of other technological miracles.

Below are the authors» 2.5 - page New Republic article, which gives a good presentation of their overall approach, plus (of interest to those who are skeptical about the need for large public investment), excerpts from a San Francisco Chronicle story showing how four generations of technological innovations in Silicon Valley — radio, vacuum tubes transistors and chips — all could NOT have happened without massive federal funds, mostly from the Defense Department.

This was often an offer gleefully accepted to the unscrupulous site owner to refuse consent on spurious grounds (if any grounds at all) or turn up the volume of his transistor radio and don a Dracula mask to frighten off any visiting prospective buyer or donee, buying at a substantial undervalue and thereafter selling on at a substantial profit.

Sony has been around for quite some time, and if you don't remember: their first branded product in the US was the TR - 55 transistor radio.

The Sol's speaker is decidedly mediocre — a few steps above a transistor radio, with very little in the way of dynamic range and virtually no bass response.

The built - in speaker is basically useless for music unless you want a tinny retro transistor radio sound, but you can connect to external speakers via Bluetooth or a...

RF devices are used in various electrical appliances including radios, transistors, laptops, mobile phones and similar others.

I refuse to believe that my friends and I were the only people back in the late 1950s and early 60s to dance on city sidewalks and sing along to tunes on a transistor radio.