Cochlear Implant
name: label: Maker
content: MED EL Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: Ingeborg and Erwin Hochmair were research scientists at the Technical University of Vienna in the mid-1970s, working on the development of cochlear implants. In 1989, the Hochmairs established a hearing implant company: MED-EL GmbH. MED EL Corp. in Research Triangle Park, N.C., donated this cochlear implant to the Smithsonian in 1997.
label: Description
content: Ref: Noel L. Cohen and Michael L. Gordon, “Cochlear Implants: Basics, History, and Future Possibilities,” SHHH Journal (Jan.-Feb. 1994): 8-10.
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: 1997.0233.01.1
label: accession number
content: 1997.0233
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0233.01.1
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Case
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: manufactured (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 cm x 24.1 cm x 20.1 cm; 1 15/16 in x 9 1/2 in x 7 15/16 in