Object Details
- Steelman Phonograph & Radio Co., Inc.
- Description (Brief)
- About ten years after the invention of transistors, Steelman Phonograph & Radio Company produced this portable tape recorder that used seven transistors in its circuits. Although heavy by today’s standards, weighing about 6.5 pounds, the “Transitape” recorder demonstrated possibilities of size and weight reduction that using transistors could provide. The Transitape used a reel-to-reel tape design with tapes that could record for sixty-four minutes. Six mercury cell AA batteries operated the amplifier for about 300 hours and another seven batteries operated the motor for 50 hours.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- from Ben Kleinerman
- ca 1960
- ID Number
- 1987.0520.01
- accession number
- 1987.0520
- catalog number
- 1987.0520.01
- Object Name
- tape recorder
- recording device
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- leather (overall material)
- plastic (overall material)
- rubber (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 10 1/2 in x 7 1/4 in x 3 1/4 in; 26.67 cm x 18.415 cm x 8.255 cm
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Electricity
- Magnetic Recording
- Communications
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1344190
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ac-b872-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
