Reel-to-Reel Tape Recorder
date: label: date made
content: ca 1965
name: label: maker
content: Ampex Corporation
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This Ampex model 750 recorder is a professional-grade unit. In 1927, Alexander M. Poniatoff emigrated from Russia to the United States and in 1944 founded Ampex to make equipment for the U. S. Navy. Looking for a post-war product, he attended a demonstration of a German tape recorder. Poniatoff decided that magnetic recording would be a good post-war market. Ampex concentrated on building higher-quality products for professional studio use rather than selling consumer products.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The donor purchased this unit as a graduate student for use in field work in the late 1970s. He was researching black gospel music.
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 John Hasse
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0927.01
label: accession number
content: 1987.0927
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0927.01
label: model number
content: 750
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tape recorder
label: Object Name
content: recording device
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 21.5 cm x 36 cm x 43 cm; 8 7/16 in x 14 3/16 in x 16 15/16 in