History
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The Regency TR-1 was the world's first commercially marketed transistor radio. It was made in America. It was released onto the market in October 1954, roughly four months before the second transistor radio would arrive, the Raytheon 8-TP1; and a good six months before Japan would produce its first transistor radio, the Sony TR-52, an experimental set never actually released for sale; and nearly two and a half years before the first Japanese pocket transistor would arrive in America: that radio was the Sony TR-63, the beginning of the end for the U.S. consumer electronics industry.
The Regency TR-1 was produced in Indianapolis, Indiana by Industrial Development Engineer Associates, using transistors manufactured by Texas Instruments. The cabinet was designed by Painter, Teague and Petertil of Chicago. The radio employed a four-transistor circuit which gave a pretty crummy performance both in reception quality and audio quality. The cabinet was originally offered in four colors: black, white, gray and red. Later, two other cabinet colors were added: "Mahogany" (brown with black striations), and "Forest Green" (dark green with white striations). "Mahogany" is very cool, and "Forest Green" is just plain killer. Then there were the "pearlescents": white pearlescent, blue pearlescent, and pink pearlescent, all unbearably rare.
(http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Atrium/1031/trans/US/1azTR1s.html)
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Produksjon - 1954 — 1960 (Antatt)
- Produsent Regency Div., I.D.E.A., Inc. sikker
- Production place Indianapolis sikker
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Classification
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- Radio og fjernsyn (Outline) OU 207
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Metadata
- Identifier NTM 22940
- Part of collection NTM
- Owner of collection Norsk Teknisk Museum
- Institution Norsk Teknisk Museum
- Date published August 11, 2014
- Date updated April 22, 2021
- DIMU-CODE 011024233207
- UUID 2e9b0c34-6385-4494-b13a-61357faac09b
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