He had an easier time making eye contact with a transistor than with a girl, and he developed the chunky and stooped look of a guy who spends most of his time hunched over circuit boards.
William Shockley, who had been one of the inventors of the transistor at Bell Labs in New Jersey, moved out to Mountain View and, ·(William Shockley),, in 1956, started a company to build transistors using silicon rather than the more expensive germanium that was then commonly used.
The new Lexus IS F-Sport model, due out this June, uses a thin-film transistor display and a moving tachometer dial (which measures RPMs) to create a hybrid of the traditional and the new.
Old transistor radios had tiny versions of each.
Blow the dust off your old clock radio or handheld transistor, plug it in, and be amazed at how vital radio still can be.
Blow the dust off your old clock radio orhandheld transistor, plug it in, and be amazed at how vital radio still can be.
Blow the dust off your old clock radio or handheld transistor, plug it in, and be amazed at how vital radio still can be.
Tried to listen to the Qawali music playing on the transistor radio at the next table.
What I remember most about the general's hospital stay is how Khala Jamila would wait until he fell asleep, and then sing to him, songs I remembered from Kabul, playing on Baba's scratchy old transistor radio.
The pile was growing there: a Polaroid camera, a transistor radio, an elaborate electric train set--and several sealed envelopes containing cash.