Reel-to-Reel Tape Recorder
date: label: date made
content: ca 1960
name: label: maker
content: Kleinerman, Ben
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This portable tape recorder from Steelman Phonograph & Radio Company was produced during the early 1950s and featured miniature vacuum tubes in the circuits. Users found this recorder much easier to carry than earlier tape and wire recorders. While transistors accelerated miniaturization and portability in electronics, vacuum tube development had already made smaller and more portable devices practical. By the end of the 1950s however, this recorder was replaced by a transistorized design that used less power and was more rugged.
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: 1987.0520.02
label: accession number
content: 1987.0520
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0520.02
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: 9 1/2 in x 7 1/2 in x 3 in; 24.13 cm x 19.05 cm x 7.62 cm