Hearing Aid
name: label: maker
content: E. A. Myers & Sons
notes: label: Description
content: Edgar A. Myers was a severely deaf attorney who was able to hear a radio broadcast of the Democratic National Convention in June 1924 by means of a large vacuum tube radio built by George F. Harrington, a Westinghouse engineer. E. A. Myers & Sons, of Pittsburgh, began manufacturing hearing aids soon thereafter. The firm gave this dummy example of a Radioear bone-conduction Deluxe Type hearing aid to the Smithsonian for exhibit purposes in 1939.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States Minor Outlying Islands
label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-04746
label: catalog number
content: M-04746
label: accession number
content: 151629
label: serial number
content: 8770
objectType: label: Object Name
content: hearing aids
label: Other Terms
content: Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/4 in x 2 1/2 in x 1 1/4 in; 13.335 cm x 6.35 cm x 3.175 cm