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It's Sixty Years Since the First Portable Transistor Radio Went on the Market and Started a Revolution
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WCSA - On This Day - August 07, 2018 - Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, begins selling its first transistor radios in Japan in 1955 - WCSA.WORLD
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