Cochlear Implant
name: label: maker
content: Advanced Bionics Corporation
label: maker
content: Advanced Bionics
notes: label: Description
content: Inscriptions on this cochlear implant read “CLARION / BY ADVANCED BIONICS / S-SERIES / SYLMAR, CA 91342 USA.” and “MODEL AB-5000R.” Alfred Mann (1925-2016), a physicist, inventor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, established Advanced Bionics in California, in 1993.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Alfred Mann,” Los Angeles Times (Jan. 1, 1999), p. VYB1.
label: Description
content: “Alfred E. Mann, 90, Pioneer in Medical Devices, Is Dead,” New York Times (Feb. 27, 2016), p. A20.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Los Angeles, Sylmar
topic: label: Subject
content: Disabilities
label: Subject
content: Prosthesis
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Advanced Bionics Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1997.0317.01
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0317.01
label: accession number
content: 1997.0317
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0317.01.2
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0317.01.3
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0317.01.4
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0317.01.5
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cochlear implant
label: Object Name
content: cochlear implant kit
label: Object Name
content: speech processor
label: Object Name
content: head piece
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: leather (case material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (case material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (speech processor material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (speech processor material)
label: Physical Description
content: lucite (cochlear implant material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (cochlear implant material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (head piece material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (head piece material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (head piece material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (cochlear implant s-series material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (cochlear implant s-series material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (cochlear implant s-series material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 cm x 26.2 cm x 19.6 cm; 2 3/4 in x 10 5/16 in x 7 11/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 5/8 in x 10 1/4 in x 8 1/4 in; 6.6675 cm x 26.035 cm x 20.955 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12.3 cm x 2.8 cm x .6 cm; 4 13/16 in x 1 1/8 in x 1/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8.3 cm x 7.7 cm x 3.6 cm; 3 1/4 in x 3 1/16 in x 1 7/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3.1 cm x 2.5 cm x .6 cm; 1 1/4 in x in x 1/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5.3 cm x 5.3 cm x 1.6 cm; 2 1/16 in x 2 1/16 in x 5/8 in