Object Details
- Ampex Corporation
- Description (Brief)
- This Ampex model 750 recorder is a professional-grade unit. In 1927, Alexander M. Poniatoff emigrated from Russia to the United States and in 1944 founded Ampex to make equipment for the U. S. Navy. Looking for a post-war product, he attended a demonstration of a German tape recorder. Poniatoff decided that magnetic recording would be a good post-war market. Ampex concentrated on building higher-quality products for professional studio use rather than selling consumer products.
- The donor purchased this unit as a graduate student for use in field work in the late 1970s. He was researching black gospel music.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- from John Hasse
- ca 1965
- ID Number
- 1987.0927.01
- accession number
- 1987.0927
- catalog number
- 1987.0927.01
- model number
- 750
- Object Name
- tape recorder
- recording device
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 21.5 cm x 36 cm x 43 cm; 8 7/16 in x 14 3/16 in x 16 15/16 in
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- Work and Industry: Electricity
- Magnetic Recording
- Communications
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1344605
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ac-b5e9-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
