Watchman
notes: label: Description
content: An inscription on this item reads in part “WATCHMAN / SIGNALING SYSTEM / MASTER” and “ULTRA TEC.” Released in 1983, this signaling device alerted deaf individuals of phone calls, doorbells, or other household sounds. Barbara Liss Chertok, the donor, became deaf at age 21 by Cogan’s Syndrome, and devoted herself to the movement to improve life for people who are deaf or hard of hearing.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Woman Overcomes Obstacles, Barbara Chertok bridges hearing impaired, hearing,” Washington Jewish Week (Feb. 8, 1996).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Disabilities
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Barbara L. Chertok
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1996.0177.01.1
label: accession number
content: 1996.0177
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0177.01.1
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0177.01.2
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0177.01.3
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Phone Signaler
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 4 in x 8 in; 7.62 cm x 10.16 cm x 20.32 cm