Hearing Aid
Hearing Aid
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- Description
- The Hearing Aid Division of the Zenith Radio Corporation unveiled its new “Zenith Eyeglass Hearing Aid” in October 1962, describing this 4-transistor model as its “proudest achievement.” The firm donated this example to the Smithsonian. The inscriptions read “Zenith” and “B&L” and “4618”.
- Ref: Zenith ad in Vogue (October 19, 1962): 105.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Spectacles
- spectacles
- hearing aid
- Other Terms
- Spectacles; Vision Aids
- date made
- ca 1960
- maker
- Bausch and Lomb Optical Company
- Zenith
- place made
- United States: New York, Rochester
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- brown (overall color)
- Measurements
- extended: 4 cm x 13.5 cm x 16 cm; 1 9/16 in x 5 5/16 in x 6 5/16 in
- overall, folded: 1 1/8 in x 7 1/4 in x 2 1/2 in; 2.8575 cm x 18.415 cm x 6.35 cm
- ID Number
- MG.M-10375
- accession number
- 244008
- catalog number
- M-10375
- Credit Line
- Zenith Radio Corporation
- subject
- Ophthalmology
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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