With fun colors and the option to run it on batteries, this radio is easy to try out anywhere in your home without making a big investment. The super-affordable Studebaker SB2000 is a good choice ...

Making A Transistor Radio, by [George Dobbs ... As an exercise the book takes a brief diversion into home-made radios as created by WW2 prisoners of war with a detector made from a piece of ...

During the first half of the 20th century radio technology was booming, albeit restricted by the vacuum tube technology of the time which made radios cumbersome in size and power needs.