Responsive Environments “Talking Page” teaching machine: Museum Object and Cultural History
Responsive Environments “Talking Page” teaching machine: date made: 1972. maker: Responsive Environments Corporation. Object Name: phonograph.
The object in the museum catalogue
This is a battery-operated interactive teaching machine with work surface and built-in record player. A mathematics module has been donated with the machine. The unit plays 6.75” vinyl records that the student can randomly access via a control on the left side of the machine. The student loads the record, places the exercise book on the work surface and begins the lesson. Donor is listed as Production Manager on the credits page of the module books. Label reads: “Ser. No. 004423”.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1972
- maker: Responsive Environments Corporation
- Object Name: phonograph
- Object Name: teaching machine
- Measurements: overall: 7 in x 14 in x 14 1/2 in; 17.78 cm x 35.56 cm x 36.83 cm
- ID Number: 2014.0142.01
- accession number: 2014.0142
- catalog number: 2014.0142.01
- Credit Line: from John V. Cozzi
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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