1 thee headsets biography 1963

The first true headphone was made in 1910, but for the next forty-plus years they weren’t used for listening to music. Headphones were worn almost exclusively by military personnel and telephone operators. Using them for entertainment wasn’t a possibility until 1958 with the invention of the stereo headset.

In 1954, Texas Instruments worked with Industrial Development Engineering Associates (I.D.E.A.) to produce a device that would change the we listen to music forever: the Regency TR-1, the first commercial transistor radio.

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Now we could listen to music on the go – thus necessitating the demand for the headphone.

This all coincided nicely with the Baby Boom. Suddenly you had the biggest generation in the history of the planet, all obsessively devouring this new music – and so, the headphone suddenly went from limited industrial use only, to being on the heads of tens of millions of youth.

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