Edgar A. Myers was a deaf attorney who, with a large vacuum tube radio built by George F. Harrington, a Westinghouse engineer, who was able to hear a radio broadcast of the Democratic National Conven-tion in June 1924. E. A. Myers & Sons, of Pittsburgh, began manufacturing Radioear hearing aids soon thereafter. The inscription on this example reads “Radioear EIGHT THIRTY.” Introduced in 1954, the Radioear 830 was an all-transistor, all-magnetic hearing aid that promised “perfectly undistracted hearing on any telephone anywhere.”
Ref: Ad for the Radioear 830 in Los Angeles Times (Oct. 25, 1954), p. 16.
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