Object Details
- Designer
- Akio Morita, Japanese, 1921 - 1999
- Kozo Ohsone, Japanese, born 1933
- Manufacturer
- Sony Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
- Description
- Blue molded plastic rectangular body with aluminum strip on right side. Two earphone jacks at top. Translucent window on front face/hinged cover shows cassette inside. SONY logo across top. Earphones in black and silver plastic with circular orange foam earpieces.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Robert M. Greenberg
- 1979
- Accession Number
- 2017-51-4-a/c
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- appliances & tools
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- Walkman Portable Cassette Player and Headphones
- Type
- Walkman Portable Cassette Player and Headphones
- Medium
- Molded plastic, aluminum, steel, polyurethane, electronic components
- Dimensions
- H x W x D (cassette player): 13 × 8.7 × 3 cm (5 1/8 × 3 7/16 × 1 3/16 in.)
- H x W x D (headphones): 16.5 × 14.2 × 4 cm (6 1/2 × 5 9/16 × 1 9/16 in.)
- manufactured in
- Tokyo, Japan
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_2017-51-4-a_c
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq47c348bc3-949b-4c4e-8a1b-50ee2568b8df
