Hearing Aid
Hearing Aid
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- Description
- The Audiphone, a small carbon microphone hearing aid developed by Bell Laboratories and the West-ern Electric Co., was introduced in early 1927. Advertisements promised “marvelous amplification.” The Orthotechnic Audiphone, a new model developed by scientists at Bell Telephone Laboratories, was introduced in 1938. The Graybar Electric Company, a successor to Western Electric, gave this air conduction example to the Smithsonian in 1939.
- Ref: Western Electric Audiphone ad in Chicago Tribune (Feb. 6, 1927), p. E6.
- Western Electric Audiphone ad in Los Angeles Times (March 27,1938), p. H2.
- Western Electric Company, New Hearing Aids (ca. 1939).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- hearing aids
- Other Terms
- Medicine
- date made
- ca 1937
- maker
- Graybar Electric Company
- Western Electric
- place made
- United States: Alabama, Avondale Lake
- Measurements
- overall: 3 in x 1 1/2 in x 1 in; 7.62 cm x 3.81 cm x 2.54 cm
- ID Number
- MG.M-04748
- catalog number
- M-04748
- accession number
- 151747
- Credit Line
- Graybar Electric Company, Inc.
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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