Hearing Aid
notes: label: Description
content: Brass ear trumpet with an inscription that reads “AUDISCOPE / PAT. PEND. / AMER. EARPHONE CO. NY.” Louis Samuel Scher (1892-1957), a New Yorker who held several Canadian and British patents for acoustic devices, established the American Earphone Co. in 1925. By 1926, the firm was offering an acoustic device that was “automatic, non-electrical, inconspicuous, worn like spectacles on ear, [and] used by Judges, teachers, &c.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Ad in <i>New York Times</i> (June 6, 1926), p. X6.
label: Description
content: “Louis Samuel Scher,” <i>New York Times</i> (Dec. 1, 1957), p. 88.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Minnesota, Saint Paul
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Telex
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-06815.01
label: catalog number
content: M-06815.01
label: accession number
content: 205419
objectType: label: Object Name
content: hearing aid, ear trumpet
label: Other Terms
content: Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/4 in x 11 5/8 in x 2 1/2 in; 4.445 cm x 29.5275 cm x 6.35 cm