Object Details
- distributor
- Graybar Electric Company
- Western Electric Company
- Graybar Electric Company
- Description
- The Audiphone, a small carbon microphone hearing aid developed by Bell Laboratories and the Western 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 bone conduction example to the Smithsonian in 1939. An inscription reads “Western Electric / Audiophone / BATTERY / No. GB-4.5” and “GraybaR / ELECTRIC COMPANY.”
- 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
- ca 1937
- ID Number
- MG.M-04749
- accession number
- 151747
- catalog number
- M-04749
- Object Name
- Hearing Aid
- Other Terms
- Hearing Aid; Prostheses
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- cardboard (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- brown (overall color)
- ecru (overall color)
- black (overall color)
- Measurements
- overall: 2.6 cm x 14 cm x 9 cm; 1 in x 5 1/2 in x 3 9/16 in
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1073499
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-4338-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
