Hearing Aid
Hearing Aid
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- Description
- Edgar A. Myers was a severely deaf attorney who was able to hear a radio broadcast of the Democratic National Convention in June 1924 by means of a large vacuum tube radio built by George F. Harrington, a Westinghouse engineer. E. A. Myers & Sons, of Pittsburgh, began manufacturing hearing aids soon thereafter. The firm gave this dummy example of a Radioear Zephyr model hearing aid to the Smithsonian for exhibit purposes in 1939. An inscription reads "AMERICAN / MEDICAL / ASSN. / ACCEPTED / COUNCIL / ON PHYSICAL / THERAPY / RADIOEAR / PAT. PEND. / NO. 11265."
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Hearing Aid
- hearing aid
- Other Terms
- Hearing Aid; Prostheses
- maker
- E. A. Myers & Sons
- place made
- United States: Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh
- Associated Place
- United States: New York, New York City
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- rubber (overall material)
- fabric, cotton (overall material)
- pink (overall color)
- Measurements
- overall: 3.2 cm x 12.6 cm x 6.5 cm; 1 1/4 in x 4 15/16 in x 2 9/16 in
- overall, as stored: 1 3/4 in x 5 3/8 in x 5 3/8 in; 4.445 cm x 13.6525 cm x 13.6525 cm
- ID Number
- MG.M-04747
- accession number
- 151629
- catalog number
- M-04747
- serial number
- 11265
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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