Artificial Larynx
name: label: maker
content: Aurex Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: The first successful electro-larynx was developed by Gilbert Wright and produced by the Aurex Co. of Chicago. An inscription on this example reads, in part, “BY AUREX CORP. / WRIGHT SONOVOX / PAT. NOS. 2273077-2273078.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Gilbert M. Wright, “Means and Methods of Producing Sound Effects,” U.S. Patent 2,273,077 (Feb. 17, 1942).
label: Description
content: Gilbert M. Wright, “Means and Methods of Producing Sound Effects,” U.S. Patent 2,273,078 (Feb. 17, 1942).
label: Description
content: “The Inventor of the Sonovox,” <i>Time</i> (July 24, 1939).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
label: Associated Place
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: The University of Maryland Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.306749.15
label: catalog number
content: 306749.15
label: accession number
content: 306749
objectType: label: Object Name
content: larynx, artificial, electric
label: Other Terms
content: Electrolarynx; Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 cm x 3.5 cm; 3 17/32 in x 1 3/8 in