Otarion Listener Hearing Aid
date: label: date made
content: 1955
name: label: maker
content: Otarion Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Otarion introduced the Listener in December 1954, terming it “the first commercially practical hearing aid completely contained within the frame of eyeglasses.” The firm donated this example to the Smithsonian in 1956. An inscription reads "Otarion__LISTNER / DOBBS FERRY N.Y."
label: Description
content: Ref: “New Hearing Aid Is Made,” <i>New York Times</i> (Dec. 10, 1954), p. 49.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Dobbs Ferry
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Otarion Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-06873.01
label: accession number
content: 210070
label: catalog number
content: M-06873
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Hearing Aid
label: Object Name
content: hearing aid
label: Object Name
content: hearing aid
label: Other Terms
content: Hearing Aid; Prosthesis; Electric; Transistor
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 cm x 7.5 cm x 15.5 cm; 1 31/32 in x 2 15/16 in x 6 3/32 in