Hearing Aid
date: label: date made
content: ca 1954
name: label: maker
content: E. A. Myers & Sons
notes: label: Description
content: Edgar A. Myers was a deaf attorney who, with a large vacuum tube radio built by George F. Harrington, a Westinghouse engineer, who was able to hear a radio broadcast of the Democratic National Convention in June 1924. E. A. Myers & Sons, of Pittsburgh, began manufacturing Radioear hearing aids soon thereafter. The inscription on this example reads “Radioear EIGHT THIRTY.” Introduced in 1954, the Radioear 830 was an all-transistor, all-magnetic hearing aid that promised “perfectly undistracted hearing on any telephone anywhere.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Ad for the Radioear 830 in <i>Los Angeles Times</i> (Oct. 25, 1954), p. 16.
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: 1984.0616.01
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0616.01
label: accession number
content: 1984.0616
label: model number
content: 83615
objectType: label: Object Name
content: hearing aid
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/2 in x 3 1/2 in x 2 5/8 in; 3.81 cm x 8.89 cm x 6.6675 cm