Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Texas Instruments, American, founded 1954
- Industrial Development Engineering Associates, Regency Division, American, founded ca. 1954
- Designer
- Painter, Teague and Petertil, American, founded 1950
- Engineer
- Arthur P. Stern, American, born Hungary, 1925 - 2012
- Patentor
- Richard C. Koch, American, 1934 - 2011
- Description
- Rectangular molded plastic body with perforations for speaker covering 2/3 of front face; brass circular dial at top right for adjusting frequency and white plastic dial for power and volume and tuning control at top left; Regency in script with crown symbol above at bottom left
- Credit Line
- Gift of Robert M. Greenberg
- 1954
- Accession Number
- 2017-51-6-a,b
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- appliances & tools
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- transistor radio
- Type
- transistor radio
- Medium
- plastic, brass; leather and metal (case)
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 12.7 × 7.6 × 3.8 cm (5 in. × 3 in. × 1 1/2 in.)
- manufactured in
- Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
- designed in
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- manufactured in
- Dallas, Texas, USA
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_2017-51-6-a_b
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4188dfe4e-979f-42f8-a658-970608c7364d
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