Sonotone Model 100 Hearing Aid
name: label: maker
content: Sonotone Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: Sonotone introduced its first transistorized hearing aid in December 1952, terming it “the latest electronic miracle.” Powered with germanium transistors, it was the same size as a book of matches, weighed but one ounce, and promised to be an investment “in a lifetime of Better Hearing.” Sonotone donated this Model 100 to the Smithsonian in 1955.
label: Description
content: Ref: Sonotone ad in <i>Chicago Tribune</i> (Dec. 30, 1952), p. 7.
label: Description
content: “‘Magic Midget’ To Be Boon For Hearing Aid Users,” <i>Hartford Courant</i> (Dec. 30, 1952), p. 12.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-06847
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content: M-06847
label: accession number
content: 208451
objectType: label: Object Name
content: hearing aids
label: Other Terms
content: Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/4 in x 3 1/4 in x 2 7/8 in; 3.175 cm x 8.255 cm x 7.3025 cm