Hearing Aid
name: label: maker
content: Dictograph Products Company
notes: label: Description
content: The Acousticon Model 28, a single microphone carbon bearing hearing aid, consists of a bone conduction headpiece with band, and amplifier. It was made by the Dictograph Products Company, Inc., in New York City, in 1928. This example was donated to the Smithsonian in 1939.
label: Description
content: Ref: Kelley M. Turner and Norton W. Johnston, “Carbon-Ball Transmitter,” U.S. Patent 844,635 (Feb. 19, 1907), assigned to General Acoustic Co.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dictograph Products Company, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-04756
label: catalog number
content: M-04756
label: accession number
content: 151789
objectType: label: Object Name
content: hearing aids
label: Other Terms
content: Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 1 in; 8.89 cm x 2.54 cm