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.
When one thinks of the most significant dates in our technological development, October 18, 1954 doesn't pop up there at the top of the list. It should; 60 years ago the first portable transistor radio went on sale. The Regency TR1 was the first consumer device to use transistors. According to Fortune Magazine,  If you owned one, you were the coolest thing on two legs.. The big radio companies weren't interested in the transistor.