Here are some interesting links I have discovered since I have been on the web. There's more information being added every day, so if you know a link that should be here, write to me at sarah@transistor.org.

 
 

 

 Radio Netherlands' site contains a lot of links and other information:

http://www.rnw.nl/realradio/links/html/antique_collections.html

Alan Kastner has put together a spectacular site of rarities, with great information and photos:

http://tabiwallah.com/radiowallah/index.html

An incredible site, the M31 Galaxy of Transistor Radios is a must see:

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Atrium/1031/trans/1trans.html

Wumpus's Old Radio World has a nice collection of European sets:

 http://www.oldradioworld.de/xportabl.htm

Camil Moujaber's site is nicely organized, with a couple of hundred radios shown:

http://www.midcenturyradios.com/Radios-TR.html

Don Adamson has a superbly-designed site:

http://members.aol.com/djadamson/arp.html

Phil Nelson's radio page is also a nice piece of work:

http://antiqueradio.org/index.html

Chuck Schwark has a very friendly and interesting site devoted to Philco radios:

http://www.philcorepairbench.com

Lello Salvatore maintains a nice site devoted to transistor radios, with a concentration on Italian types (rarely, if ever, seen in the US):

http://www.alltransistor.it

The next two links are to press releases from Texas Instruments in 1954, regarding the transistors they supplied for use in the first commercial transistor radio, the Regency TR-1:

http://www.ti.com/corp/docs/company/history/radio.shtml
http://www.ti.com/corp/docs/company/history/transistor.shtml

In addition, there are some interesting Texas Instruments prototypes in the Smithsonian collection:

http://smithsonianchips.si.edu/texas/radio.htm

Bob McGarrah maintains a great site devoted to transistor and transistor radio history:

http://users.arczip.com/rmcgarra1/index.html

George Kaczowka has some very rare and well-preserved transistor radios:

http://www.oldradios.com/gsk/

Professor Aldo Andreani maintains a huge directory of transistor radio links:

http://www.geocities.com/aldoandr/transistor.html

wa2ise has an interesting site, including some transistor radios:

http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/9178/

This site appears to be in German, but check out the photos:

http://members.aol.com/gaclasen/60er.htm

Robert Thompson has a wonderful site, showcasing mainly European transistor sets in a well-indexed and commented fashion:

http://www.roberts-radios.co.uk/

Tom Polk has a nice selection of well-photographed transistor sets:

http://www.tompolk.com/radios/radios.html

Details and history of the transistor itself can be found here:

http://www.101science.com/transistor.htm

Check out a site devoted to early transistors:

http://semiconductormuseum.com/Museum_Index.htm

Here's a site devoted only to Raytheon's CK722, an early transistor:

http://www.ck722museum.com/

Bernard Hartman has a nice website with good coverage of some European radios:

 http://www.portablebernard.569.nl

A wonderful site with extensive information on Philips (Norelco) Electronic Kits:

http://gjerde.nvg.org/ee/

Bob McGarrah's Virtual Transistor Museum is pretty cool:

http://users.arczip.com/rmcgarra1/index.html

Paul and Cheryl Drake have a cool site with lots of interesting Grundig and other radios:

http://cheryldrake_1.tripod.com/Grundig/index.html

Finally, Andrew Wylie collects transistors (not the radios) themselves. Check it out:

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Andrew_Wylie/
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