Object Details
- Sony
- Description
- This Sony "Walkman" portable tape player dates from the early 1980s. Originally introduced in 1979 as the “Soundabout,” two people could listen simultaneously while a small microphone permitted them to converse without removing their headsets. Powered by a 9-volt battery, the recorder sold well until the decline of the cassette format in the mid 2000s.
- Until the middle of the twentieth century portable recording equipment could be quite heavy. The introduction of small transistor radios in 1954 marked a new era in portable entertainment. Philips’ invention of a compact recording cassette in 1962 provided a convenient medium for music distribution.
- Credit Line
- from Sony Corporation of America
- ca 1980
- ID Number
- 1987.0127.01
- accession number
- 1987.0127
- catalog number
- 1987.0127.01
- Object Name
- magnetic recording device
- tape recorder
- cassette player
- Other Terms
- tape recorder; Audio Devices
- Physical Description
- plastic (parts material)
- metal (parts material)
- Measurements
- player: 5 1/2 in x 3 1/2 in x 1 1/8 in; 13.97 cm x 8.89 cm x 2.8575 cm
- Related Publication
- Sewer, Andy; Allison, David; Liebhold, Peter; Davis, Nancy; Franz, Kathleen G.. American Enterprise: A History of Business in America
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- Music & Musical Instruments
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- Communications
- American Enterprise
- American Stories exhibit
- Exhibition
- American Enterprise
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_714276
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-6240-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
