Transistor radio (Regency TR-1)

CTL-E-1339 · Work · other · unspecified

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Object biography (11 documented links). Full chain in object-biographies.json.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from LIFE-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-LIFE-001:CTL-LIFE-E-080; source research type(s): object. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

https://www.marketplace.org/story/2022/12/14/taking-the-transistor-mainstream-with-music-on-the-go
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/the-transistor-radio-launches-the-portable-electronic-age-110761753/

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