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2. Transistor radio - Wikipedia

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   The typical portable tube radio of the fifties was about the size and weight of a lunchbox and contained several heavy, non-rechargeable batteries—one or more so-called "A" batteries to heat the tube filaments and a large 45- to 90-volt "B" battery to power the signal circuits. By comparison, the transistor radio could fit in a pocket and ...

3. Boombox - Wikipedia

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   A boombox is a transistorized portable music player featuring one or two cassette tape players/recorders and AM/FM radio, generally with a carrying handle. Beginning in the mid-1990s, a CD player was often included. [1] Sound is delivered through an amplifier and two or more integrated loudspeakers.

4. Radio receiver - Wikipedia

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   A portable battery-powered AM/FM broadcast receiver, used to listen to audio broadcast by local radio stations. A modern communications receiver, used in two-way radio communication stations to talk with remote locations by shortwave radio. Girl listening to vacuum tube console radio in the 1940s.

5. List of radios - Wikipedia

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   The RCA model R7 Superette superheterodyne table radio. This is a list of notable radios, which encompasses specific models and brands of radio transmitters, receivers and transceivers, both actively manufactured and defunct, including receivers, two-way radios, citizens band radios, shortwave radios, ham radios, scanners, weather radios and airband and marine VHF radios.

6. Hurricane Season 2024: Tips for starting a storm supply list

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   Clock (wind-up or battery-operated) Battery-operated radio. NOAA emergency weather radio. Extra batteries. Toilet paper. Matches (camping stores have waterproof matches) Scissors. Plastic garbage bags

7. History of radio - Wikipedia

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   In 1954, the Regency company introduced a pocket transistor radio, the TR-1, powered by a "standard 22.5 V Battery." In 1955, the newly formed Sony company introduced its first transistorized radio, the TR-55. [65] It was small enough to fit in a vest pocket, powered by a small battery. It was durable, because it had no vacuum tubes to burn out.