Rabco ST-4 servo-controlled turntable: Museum Object and Cultural History
Rabco ST-4 servo-controlled turntable: date made: ca 1965. maker: RABCO. Object Name: Phonograph.
The object in the museum catalogue
A phonograph turntable with a linear-tracking tone arm. Wooden housing. Label on back reads: "RABCO 3969 / Patent No. 2915315"; printed on back: "R / G / L"; label on top of tone arm: " RABCO SL - 8E"; plate on turntable base: "RABCO ST-4"; printed on base: " Off / On"; plate on front: "RABCO". Tone arm counter-weight is numbered 1 through 4. Patent #2915315 issued 1 December 1959 to Jacob Rabinow for a Servo Arm for Phonograph Pickups. This unit may be a prototype or experimental unit since it exhibits features not seen on commercially sold ST-4 units. No cover was received with this unit.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: ca 1965
- maker: RABCO
- Object Name: Phonograph
- Other Terms: Phonograph; Audio Devices
- Measurements: turntable, servo-controlled: 8 3/8 in x 15 1/2 in x 18 in; 21.2725 cm x 39.37 cm x 45.72 cm
- ID Number: 2005.0273.01
- accession number: 2005.0273
- catalog number: 2005.0273.01
- patent number: 2915315
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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