Audiphone Hearing Aid
date: label: date made
content: ca 1937
name: label: maker
content: Graybar Electric Company
label: maker
content: Western Electric
notes: label: Description
content: The Audiphone, a small carbon microphone hearing aid developed by Bell Laboratories and the West-ern Electric Co., was introduced in early 1927. Advertisements promised “marvelous amplification.” The Orthotechnic Audiphone, a new model developed by scientists at Bell Telephone Laboratories, was introduced in 1938. The Graybar Electric Company, a successor to Western Electric, gave this air conduction example to the Smithsonian in 1939.
label: Description
content: Ref: Western Electric Audiphone ad in <i> Chicago Tribune</i> (Feb. 6, 1927), p. E6.
label: Description
content: Western Electric Audiphone ad in <i>Los Angeles Times</i> (March 27,1938), p. H2.
label: Description
content: Western Electric Company, <i>New Hearing Aids</i> (ca. 1939).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Alabama, Avondale Lake
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Graybar Electric Company, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-04748
label: catalog number
content: M-04748
label: accession number
content: 151747
objectType: label: Object Name
content: hearing aids
label: Other Terms
content: Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 1 1/2 in x 1 in; 7.62 cm x 3.81 cm x 2.54 cm