Both Uses of
transistor radio
in
The Crying of Lot 49
- She looked down a slope, needing to squint for the sunlight, onto a vast sprawl of houses which had grown up all together, like a well-tended crop, from the dull brown earth: and she thought of the time she'd opened a transistor radio to replace a battery and seen her first printed circuit.†
Chpt 2 *transistor radio = a type of small portable radio
- In the buses all night she listened to transistor radios playing songs in the lower stretches of the Top 200, that would never become popular, whose melodies and lyrics would perish as if they had never been sung.†
Chpt 5transistor radios = small portable radios made with transistors rather than vacuum tubes
Definition:
a small portable radio that was popular in the past and made with transistors rather than vacuum tubes