Texas Instruments beat them to market with a transistor radio, the Regency TR-1, in 1954, but in 1955, Sony produced the TR-55. Of the five transistors inside, some were alloyed transistors ...

Combining the two concepts, they developed a new name: Sony. And the rest, as they say, is history. With the transistor radio, music and information suddenly became portable. No matter how ...

Sony launched the world's first non-projection, fully transistorized television, the TV8-301, in May 1960, about six years after Texas Instruments and Regency introduced the first transistor ...