Reel-to-Reel Tape Recorder
date: label: date made
content: ca 1960
name: label: maker
content: Steelman Phonograph & Radio Co., Inc.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: About ten years after the invention of transistors, Steelman Phonograph & Radio Company produced this portable tape recorder that used seven transistors in its circuits. Although heavy by today’s standards, weighing about 6.5 pounds, the “Transitape” recorder demonstrated possibilities of size and weight reduction that using transistors could provide. The Transitape used a reel-to-reel tape design with tapes that could record for sixty-four minutes. Six mercury cell AA batteries operated the amplifier for about 300 hours and another seven batteries operated the motor for 50 hours.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
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content: Magnetic Recording
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content: Communications
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Ben Kleinerman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0520.01
label: accession number
content: 1987.0520
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0520.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tape recorder
label: Object Name
content: recording device
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 1/2 in x 7 1/4 in x 3 1/4 in; 26.67 cm x 18.415 cm x 8.255 cm