Hearing Aid
name: label: maker
content: E. A. Myers & Sons
notes: label: Description
content: Edgar A. Myers was a severely deaf attorney who was able to hear a radio broadcast of the Democratic National Convention in June 1924 by means of a large vacuum tube radio built by George F. Harrington, a Westinghouse engineer. E. A. Myers & Sons, of Pittsburgh, began manufacturing hearing aids soon thereafter. The firm gave this dummy example of a Radioear Zephyr model hearing aid to the Smithsonian for exhibit purposes in 1939. An inscription reads "AMERICAN / MEDICAL / ASSN. / ACCEPTED / COUNCIL / ON PHYSICAL / THERAPY / RADIOEAR / PAT. PEND. / NO. 11265."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh
label: Associated Place
content: United States: New York, New York City
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-04747
label: accession number
content: 151629
label: catalog number
content: M-04747
label: serial number
content: 11265
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Hearing Aid
label: Object Name
content: hearing aid
label: Other Terms
content: Hearing Aid; Prostheses
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: fabric, cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: pink (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3.2 cm x 12.6 cm x 6.5 cm; 1 1/4 in x 4 15/16 in x 2 9/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall, as stored: 1 3/4 in x 5 3/8 in x 5 3/8 in; 4.445 cm x 13.6525 cm x 13.6525 cm