Hearing Aid
date: label: date made
content: ca 1960
name: label: maker
content: Bausch and Lomb Optical Company
label: maker
content: Zenith
notes: label: Description
content: The Hearing Aid Division of the Zenith Radio Corporation unveiled its new “Zenith Eyeglass Hearing Aid” in October 1962, describing this 4-transistor model as its “proudest achievement.” The firm donated this example to the Smithsonian. The inscriptions read “Zenith” and “B&L” and “4618”.
label: Description
content: Ref: Zenith ad in <i>Vogue</i> (October 19, 1962): 105.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Rochester
topic: label: Subject
content: Ophthalmology
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Zenith Radio Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-10375
label: accession number
content: 244008
label: catalog number
content: M-10375
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Spectacles
label: Object Name
content: spectacles
label: Object Name
content: hearing aid
label: Other Terms
content: Spectacles; Vision Aids
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brown (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: extended: 4 cm x 13.5 cm x 16 cm; 1 9/16 in x 5 5/16 in x 6 5/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall, folded: 1 1/8 in x 7 1/4 in x 2 1/2 in; 2.8575 cm x 18.415 cm x 6.35 cm