Conversation Tube
notes: label: Description
content: Hearing aid of the sort termed a conversation tube.
label: Description
content: Ref: George Tieman & Co., <i>American Armamentarium Chirurgicum</i> (New York, 1879), p. 53.
label: Description
content: Charles Truax, <i>The Mechanics of Surgery</i> (Chicago, 1899), p. 796.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-06589
label: accession number
content: 197642
label: catalog number
content: M-06589
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Hearing Aid
label: Object Name
content: hearing aid, conversation tube
label: Other Terms
content: Hearing Aid; Prosthesis; Conversation Tube
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: fabric (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brown (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 79.8 cm x 1.6 cm; x 31 7/16 in x 5/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall, as stored: 2 3/8 in x 8 1/4 in x 14 in; 6.0325 cm x 20.955 cm x 35.56 cm