Hearing Aid
date: label: date made
content: Late 19th Century
notes: label: Description
content: Swan-shaped ear trumpet made of metal with an ivory tip. The form was sometimes termed a London hearing dome and sometimes a grand opera dome.
label: Description
content: Ref: Irving Wilson Voorhees, “Mechanical Aids to Hearing” in Thomas Lathrop Steadman, ed., <i>A Reference Handbook of the Medical Sciences</i> (New York, 1915), vol. 5, p. 45.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England
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.321687.01
label: catalog number
content: 321687.01
label: accession number
content: 321687
objectType: label: Object Name
content: hearing aid, ear trumpet
label: Other Terms
content: Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 cm x 10 cm; 2 3/4 in x 3 15/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/8 in x 4 in x 3 in; 3.4925 cm x 10.16 cm x 7.62 cm