Hearing Aid
date: label: date made
content: 1944
name: label: maker
content: E. A. Myers & Sons
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Mount Lebanon
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-05256
label: catalog number
content: M-05256
label: model number
content: 45-M
label: serial number
content: 16354
label: accession number
content: 168425
objectType: label: Object Name
content: hearing aid
label: Other Terms
content: Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 5 in; 7.62 cm x 12.7 cm