Audiometer
name: label: maker
content: Western Electric
notes: label: Description
content: The Western Electric Co. patented an electric audiometer in 1914 and introduced the first commercially available, and exceedingly expensive, device for measuring the sensitivity of hearing, the Western Electric 1A. This item is a Model 2-A introduced in 1923.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Newark
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: The University of Maryland Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.306749.12
label: catalog number
content: 306749.12
label: accession number
content: 306749
label: serial number
content: 15707
objectType: label: Object Name
content: audiometer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 51 cm x 25.5 cm x 27.5 cm; 20 3/32 in x 10 1/32 in x 10 13/16 in