Emerson model PD5098 portable CD player / AM/FM radio
date: label: date made
content: 2007-10
name: label: maker
content: Emerson Radio Corporation
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A portable radio with CD player. Paper label: "S/N: 71042971 OKS"; another: Manufactured: October 2007". Maker's label indicates "Made in China." Molded on back: "Class 1 / Laser Product". Unit can operate on AC power or on six C-cell batteries (no batteries are in unit). Ear-phone jack on one side, AC port on the back.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The invention of the transistor in 1947 enabled the development of small, portable electronic devices like radios and tape cassette players. Refinements of laser technology (a device invented in 1960), allowed for the invention of a new media, plastic compact discs. This unit demonstrates the merger of integrated circuit and laser technology in an affordable audio package. It also shows the globalization of supply chains as US radio maker Emerson produced this unit in China for the US market.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2022.0278.05
label: accession number
content: 2022.0278
label: catalog number
content: 2022.0278.05
objectType: label: Object Name
content: radio receiver
label: Object Name
content: compact disc player
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/4 in x 10 1/2 in x 3 1/4 in; 15.875 cm x 26.67 cm x 8.255 cm