Sentences with phrase «at transistor radios»

When RCA sneered at transistor radios, Sony captured the audio market by first putting out tinny pocket transistors for teenagers, then expanded its base with steady technological improvement.

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Bleepy electropop pours from the transistor radios, Penguin Classic paperbacks snap at the spine from overuse, while the balmy climes cause locals to disrobe and take a cooling dip at any given opportunity.

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.

For example, when Sony introduced its first transistor pocket radios, it sold them to teenagers who had nothing at all, rather than adults who already owned RCA's tabletop radios.

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.

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.

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.

To take an example from the past, which I owe to Leon Cooper, a nineteenth - century development program aimed at the mechanical reproduction of music might have produced a superbly engineered music box or Pianola, but it would never have imagined a transistor radio or subsidized the work of Maxwell on the physics of the electromagnetic field which made the transistor radio possible.»

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.

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.