Telecommunications Device for the Deaf
date: label: associated dates
content: 1990 01 19 / 1990 01 19
notes: label: Description
content: The MCM (Manual Communications Module), the first portable electronic TTY allowing two-way telecommunications, was unveiled at the California Association of the Deaf convention in 1973. It was devised by deaf news anchor and deaf interpreter, Kit Patrick Corson, in conjunction with Michael Cannon and physicist Art Ogawa. It was manufactured by Cannon's company, Micon Industries, and marketed by Corson's company, Silent Communications. This example has a “MCM 1383 / MICON INDUSTRIES / PAT PENDING” inscription.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Teletype Connection Puts the Deaf in Touch,” Los Angeles Times (Dec. 7, 1975), p. B5.
label: Description
content: Karen Peltz Strauss, A New Civil Right: Telecommunications Equality for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Americans (Washington: Gallaudet University Press, 2006).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: associated place
content: United States: Maryland, Chevy Chase
topic: label: Subject
content: Disabilities
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Edward L. Heller
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1990.0057.01
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content: 1990.0057.01
label: accession number
content: 1990.0057
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Tdd
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content: tdd
label: Object Name
content: telecommunication device, deaf
label: Other Terms
content: Tdd; Communication Aid for Handicapped
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: molded (overall production method/technique)
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content: plastic (overall material)
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content: metal (overall material)
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content: rubber (overall material)
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content: black (overall color)
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content: white (overall color)
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content: red (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 cm x 24 cm x 21 cm; 3 1/8 in x 9 7/16 in x 8 1/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/8 in x 9 1/2 in x 8 in; 8.5725 cm x 24.13 cm x 20.32 cm