Artificial Larynx
date: label: date made
content: ca 1964
name: label: maker
content: Western Electric
notes: label: Description
content: A transistorized artificial larynx developed by the Bell Telephone Laboratories was on the market by 1960. It sold for $45, allegedly the actual cost of manufacturing. One model simulated a male voice, and another a female voice. By 1961, the firm was selling 4,000 units a year.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Artificial Larynx Promises To Help Voiceless To Speak,” <i>Atlanta Daily World</i> (Nov. 12, 1959), p. 5.
label: Description
content: “Device Gives Speech Back To Voiceless,” Chicago <i>Tribune</i> (Sept. 22, 1960), p. W16.
label: Description
content: “The Artificial Larynx,” <i>New York Times</i> (Aug. 6, 1961), p. 71.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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: 1984.0633.01
label: accession number
content: 1984.0633
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0633.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Larynx, Artificial
label: Object Name
content: larynx, artificial, electronic
label: Other Terms
content: Larynx, Artificial; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 7/8 in x 7 5/8 in x 3 5/8 in; 7.3025 cm x 19.3675 cm x 9.2075 cm
label: Measurements
content: larynx, artificial electronic: 19.3 cm x 7.3 cm x 9.4 cm; 7 19/32 in x 2 7/8 in x 3 11/16 in