Akela, my female German Shepherd Dog, shown here at 10 months old. This is Brutus, my black Alsatian who sadly passed away at the age of 10. He lived in South Africa in a city by the sea, which was ironic since he hated water. He was a wonderful, intelligent and kind friend who will be sorely missed.
Sony, who is often credited with developing the first portable radio, didn't come out with theirs until 1957. Don Pies Regency TR1 Website/via. It didn't take long for transistors to take over and for them to shrink down to integrated circuits to the point where you can now get an entire Radio Shack in an iPhone. It all started 60 years ago with this.
In 1954, Texas Instruments designed and manufactured the first transistor radio and Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit in 1958 while working at TI's Central Research Labs.The company produced the first integrated circuit-based computer for the U.S. Air Force in 1961.exas Instruments was founded in 1951. It emerged after a reorganization of Geophysical Service, a company that manufactured equipment for use in the seismic industry as well as defense electronics.