The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-23

the lad by telephone operators in at
tending sWitch-boards He began eX-
perimenting with electricity as an aural
aid to nature three years ago. when
ne was only 10 wears old, mainly
Trough ms sympathy for a young
TREND VINO was totally deaf, and the
result has been the instrument which
he has named the Akoulallion, from
the Greek a :Akouo," to hear. and
Lalleo. to speak The apparatus is
comp ilcated, but similar in appearance
70 the instruments worn by telephone
operators" A steel band holds what
n construction appears to be fiat tele-
phone receivers over each ear, and a
transmltter is attached to an alumni
UNI collar in such a position that the
mute using itEcan suit himself as to
the wearing distance from the mouth
!hefe are controllers on each side of
the collar, which hangs down on the
chest Tor about twelve inches so as TO
lessen or increase the magnifying
poMer OF the sensitive plates within the
ear attachments A small switch en-
ables the mute undergoing instructions
70 cut out the instructor so as to hear
liis own voice or to communicate with
other pupils of the circuit The inn
poltaiiee OF regulating the intensity of
sounu 10 each ear is recognized by the
liieuieai PROFESSION, as in nearly every
Iase VI oeaIness one ear is found to
be partly sensitive. The current used
in the two sets of instruments at pres
eht employed by the inventor is OBJ
tanned from battery of ten cells. The
battery wires are attached to an in
slfuIhent controlled by the instructor
LOT tne purpose of reducing the current
as the hearing faculties of those
ulliElluer@lnstruction are quickened. The
secret OF the invention lies in the aural
IN rIyt,.
instrument described is intended solely
Tor class instruction, and has been APP
proved by Professors Thomas P. Nc
Aloney of Washington and j. H. John
son of the Alabama State Institute,
both Well-known Instructors of the
deaf' The electrical appliances enable
instructors to teach articulation and
ultimately to recover the power of
speech for pupils whose vocal organs
are in statesof atrophy through want
OF usage. In the same manner the
nearing will be benefited through the
instruments causing the inert ossicles
of the ear to vibrate Out of 100 cases
tested with the Instrument at ITALIA
dega there was not one failure and in
every case the patients appeared to be
able to distinguish sounds for periods
ranging from an hour to half day
after the apparatus had been removed
from their previously insensitive or
gans. In.,the opinion of DR.. Sidney
Pugh, local practitioner who has taken
critical interest in the invention, the
instruction apparatus will develop the
vocal organs of deaf child almost as
well as the development would occur
in an infant with. all its faculties. but
in the case of adults the process of ar
uculation will be much slower
The second instrument which Mr.
Hutchinson has constructed is on the
principle of the receivers in the in
struction apparatus, and is portable,
the current being obtained from
small pocket battery. 1t is somewhat
larger but similar in appearance to
a medical phoneidoscope and has a
small trumpet-likes receiver The
singular thing about this instrument
is that persons of ordinary hearing eX-
perience no discomfort by its use. al
tough it's sound magnifying power is
intense. the metal used in all the APP
planes is aluminium, with the eXcep-
ton of the interior construction of the