Audiometer
date: label: date made
content: ca 1922
name: label: maker
content: Western Electric
notes: label: Description
content: This is the original 1-A Audiometer which gave the first quantitative measurements of human hearing. It was built by Western Electric Co. Engineering Department (later the Bell Telephone Laboratories) and, in 1922, it was presented to the American Laryngological, Rhinological and Otological Society, and to the American Otological Society. The donor, Edmund Prince Fowler, (1873-1966) was a member of The Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital, clinical professor at Columbia University, president of the American Otological Society, and founder of the first hearing center in the United States. Fowler also contributed to the design of this audiometer.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Edmund Fowler, Otologist, is Dead,” <i>New York Times</i> (Oct. 8, 1966), p. 26.
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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-10901
label: catalog number
content: 256198.01
label: catalog number
content: M-10901
label: accession number
content: 256198
objectType: label: Object Name
content: audiometer