

In order to find an alternative they used numerous substances such as silicon and germanium. For years, three scientists had been searching for an alternative to the use of vacuum tubes to control a variety of electronic devices.

For this we'll have to go yet a bit further back in time to the year 1947, and to a place called New Jersey in the USA, where the Bell Telephone Company laboratories were located. But, change was coming and the radio, be it in quite another form, would be instrumental in it. A warmer joint family evening was hard to imagine. Afterwards, a game was played to win peanuts, which were then shelled and eaten. Whether it was a musical lecture, a book review or a film review, people listened and discussed together. A wonderful tube radio that started slowly but then produced a warm sound. At the ready stood lemonade for the children and coffee or tea for both parents.Įveryone gathered around the table and the radio in the oak cupboard was switched on. Father, who took an old newspaper from the newspaper basket and laid it over the plastic, and mother who spread the roasted peanuts, still in their shells, over the newspapers. The curtains were drawn early, the big table lamp above the table was switched on and the beautiful woolen tablecloth for that evening was covered with table plastic, which was sold by the meters. Nevertheless, there was often a joint form of spending leisure time, for example the Saturday evening. Only a few people owned a television set. I imagine an average family in the middle of the 1950s. Right: The Regency TR-1, the very first transistor radio for the general public Hans Knot tells us more about the impact of the device. With that device, young people could retreat to their own spaces to listen to their own music.
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From there it entered the sphere of everyday life and, especially by its use in the production of small portable radios, changed the routines and relations of family life. In the 1950s, the transistor made its entry in the world of electronics.
