Hearing Aid
date: label: date made
content: before 1961
notes: label: Description
content: Accompanying this brass ear trumpet is a note from Irene Amato, which reads: “This ugly instrument has been made obsolete by the genius of Dr. Julius Lampert from a grateful patient.” Julius Lempert (1891-1968) was born in Poland, moved to the United States in his teens, became a physician, established the Lempert Institute of Otology in New York, and developed an operation for relieving deafness, at least in some cases.
label: Description
content: Ref: George Tieman & Co., <i>American Armamentarium Chirurgicum</i> (New York, 1879), p. 52.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Julius Lempert, M.D., Lempert Institute of Otology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-09846
label: catalog number
content: M-09846
label: accession number
content: 227302
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Hearing Aid
label: Object Name
content: hearing aid, ear trumpet
label: Other Terms
content: Hearing Aid; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/8 in x 4 in; 7.93786 cm x 10.16 cm