DTNS 2797 – Secretly Listening to Dr. Demento

Logo by Mustafa Anabtawi thepolarcat.comHow transistor radios paved the way for smartphones. Tech historian Tamar Sandel talks with Scott Johnson and Tom Merritt about what we owe the cheap radios of the 1950s and 1960s.

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