2. Christian Sandström holds a PhD from Chalmers
University of Technology, Sweden. He writes and speaks
about disruptive innovation and technological change.
11. The ’furniture radios’ used Vacuum
tubes, and therefore they were big
and demanded a lot of energy.
12. In order to sell transistor radios, Sony
had to create a new channel. The
Radio stores made money on
repairing furniture radios and were
therefore not interested in selling
small, cheap transistor radios which
did not generate service revenues.
41. The Beach Boys released a song
called ’Magic Transistor Radio’.
42. Benny Hill, the famous
English entertainer
wrote a song called
Transistor Radio in
1961 (Listen here):
43. “My baby’s got a
transistor radio
She takes it
everywhere we
go
She takes it
when we go out
a-walking
Even to a
movie show”
44. “Well now
just last night,
in the pale
moonlight
I asked her for a
kiss
But instead of
hearing her
whisper sweet
words of love
All that I could
hear was this…”
45. “I’d like to take her
transistor radio
And throw it in
the deep blue sea
I’m so jealous of her
transistor radio
Cause it takes her
mind off me“
