Before the MP3 was the Walkman and before that was the "tranny" - the transistor radio. Personal radios existed before their mass popularity in the 1960's, but then they became a teenage 'must-have'.

They had to catch the attention of the public. That happened with the hand-held radio. The first transistor radio was a joint project between the Regency Division of Industrial Development ...

The crystal in a crystal earpiece is a piezoelectric sound transducer. Back in the 1960s, these were fairly common in cheap transistor radios and hearing aids. Their sound fidelity isn’t very ...

followed quickly by transistor radios. The computer industry immediately began designing computers using transistors that were faster, smaller, more economical, and more powerful.

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ICYMI, there’s a theory that Harris was wearing an earpiece (Nova H1 Audio, to be exact) during the debate — but is it true?

securing a license to produce transistors was difficult in the early days. What’s worse is, even with the license, it was not feasible to use the crude devices in a radio.