First real pocket radio 1947 Belmont Boulevard not transistor -

Radio has been around about 100 years now. In the early days it was stationary. You had to be connected to a long antenna, and to a ground--which meant a pipe that went into the ground like, for example, plumbing. So you weren’t going anywhere. From the earliest days people wished radio could be mobile. But early radio was about as mobile as a washing machine. One pioneer a little bit later had an emphasis on making radios that would be mobile. Not in your pocket, but in a car. They named their brand after that concept, Motorola. You’ve heard of it. And when they put a radio in your car, they put this decal on your window to let the world know. But there was a dream in radio that was not fulfilled until 1947. The dream was to have a radio that you could listen to while walking around--that you could carry IN YOUR POCKET and not be attached to antenna or ground or anything. To be sure, many radios were made that CALLED themselves “pocket radios“--and they were small. But they h