now we know why Italians invented opera!
It was on this dayOctober18th,in 1954
that the first transistor radio appeared on the market.
Texas Instruments went on to pursue other projects,
but a Japanese company called Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo
decided to make transistor radios their main enterprise.
They were concerned that their name was too difficult for an American audience to pronounce,
so they decided to rebrand themselves with something simpler.
They looked up the Latin word for sound, which was sonus.
And they liked the term sonny boys — English slang that was used in Japan for exceptionally bright, promising boys.
And so the company Sony was born.
Soon transistor radios were cheap and prevalent.
With transistor radios, teenagers were able to listen to music out of their parents’ earshot.
This made possible the explosion of a new genre of American music: rock and roll.
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