Hearing Aid
Hearing Aid
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- Description
- Edgar A. Myers was a deaf attorney in Pittsburgh who, with a large vacuum tube radio built by George F. Harrington, a Westinghouse engineer, was able to hear a radio broadcast of the Democratic National Convention in June 1924. E. A. Myers & Sons began manufacturing Radioear hearing aids soon thereafter. The firm donated this Radioear model 45-M to the Smithsonian in 1944.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- hearing aid
- Other Terms
- Medicine
- date made
- 1944
- maker
- E. A. Myers & Sons
- place made
- United States: Pennsylvania, Mount Lebanon
- Measurements
- overall: 3 in x 5 in; 7.62 cm x 12.7 cm
- ID Number
- MG.M-05256
- catalog number
- M-05256
- model number
- 45-M
- serial number
- 16354
- accession number
- 168425
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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