Sentences with phrase «transistor radio»

Indiana farmers listen to the weather reports from Asia on transistor radios in their barns.

Clay Christiansen's comparison of virtual education today to the pocket transistor radio of the 1950s seemed entirely apt.

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.

Although the first transistor radios appeared in the mid-1950s, the invention's full commercial potential did not begin to be realized until the 1970s and»80s.

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.

1954: Texas Instruments introduces transistor radio.

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.

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.

His 1978 Philips 070 transistor radio arrived safely, so I set out to bring it back to life after decades of muteness.

SilverGen ionic / colloidal silver generators are all electronic and do NOT use 9 volt transistor radio batteries or wall transformers used to power small electronic items as most rudimentary units do.

Slowly, the coach befriends this man, dubbing him with the nickname of «Radio» for his affinity toward transistor radios, and the soul music played on the local stations.

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.

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

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.

Nor to be a symbol («What is a toothless whore named Cookie, standing in puke - green light outside a 7 - Eleven, juking to an AM transistor radio, a symbol of, James Joyce?»)

A portable, working, red and white transistor radio with a Silent Hill 2 logo along the bottom.

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

Edward Poitras, Vita Brevis, 1992, coyote bones, rawhide, circuit board, transmitters and antennae, two - channel audio, transistor radio components with feathers, steel bowl.

An exhibition at Kohn Gallery through June 25 brings together a survey of work including his best - known Verifax collages of a hand holding the aforementioned transistor radio as a frame for images ranging from falling stars to rock stars.

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

The unifying image in this series of lithographs is lifted from a 1963 Sony transistor radio advertisement, on which Berman collaged the various tropes and motifs, pioneering the use of the Verifax automated photocopier — his main artistic tool throughout the majority of his practice.

They also had several 9V powered transistor radios, including a Little Green Sprout model made in Hong Kong.

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...

In fact, when I blasted Papa Roach's «Last Resort» on the Turbo 2 and the iPhone 6s Plus, Motorola's phone made Apple's sound like a bad transistor radio.

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.

Craig's apartment was practically empty after that, except for a bed, a chair and a small transistor radio.

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

That's how the transistor radio disrupted the television and how the personal computer rendered the mainframe computer obsolete.

«I saw pictures of two people who were lying, overturned, on charpoys [rope beds] with two transistor radios — Philips transistor radios — next to them.

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

It reminds me of going on fishing trips with my friends to the remote lakes in northern Ontario, drinking beer in an old cabin, listening to Gordon on a transistor radio.

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.

She opened the desk drawer and pulled out her grandfather's transistor radio, out of which a romantic love song wafted.

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 people.

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.

It features a Coca - Cola bottle, a transistor radio, hot dog, and record.

Believing herself a cyborg, she charges herself with a transistor radio.

Please note, however, that the prominent billing of the British rock group The Zombies refers only to a rather contrived appearance on a TV screen in the background of one shot and a song playing on a transistor radio in another.

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.

Outside, a group of students listens in with a transistor radio.

When Sony introduced its pocket transistor radio, the corporation tried to get the appliance stores to carry its products, too.

A few years later, in 1955, Sony introduced the first battery - powered, pocket transistor radio.

The transistor radio allowed teenagers to listen to music out of earshot of their parents because it was portable, and although the reception and fidelity weren't great, the new device was far better than the alternative, which was no radio at all.

But Sony chose to sell its transistor radio to non-consumers, teenagers who could not afford a big tabletop radio.