Acoustic Device
name: label: maker
content: Baldwin, Nathaniel P.
notes: label: Description
content: Acoustic device with inscriptions that refer to patents of May 10, 1910 and Sept. 14, 1915 issued to Nathaniel Baldwin (1878-1961) of Utah. Baldwin held several dozen patents for various acoustic devices. This device may be related to hearing tests but its use is uncertain.
label: Description
content: Ref: Nathaniel Baldwin, “Telephone Receiver,” U.S. Patent 957,403 (May 10, 1910).
label: Description
content: Nathaniel Baldwin, “Telephone Receiver,” U.S. Patent 1,153,593 (Sept. 14, 1915).
label: Description
content: Merrill Singer, “Nathaniel Baldwin, Utah Inventor and Patron of the Fundamentalist Movement,” Utah Historical Quarterly 47 (1979): 42-53.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Latter Day Saints
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ZZ.RSN83554U28
objectType: label: Object Name
content: device, acoustic
label: Other Terms
content: Device, Testing, Hearing; Diagnostic Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/2 in x 20 1/4 in x 7 in; 11.43 cm x 51.435 cm x 17.78 cm