Artificial Larynx
name: label: maker
content: LaBarge, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: VoiceBak is an artificial larynx trademarked and manufactured by LaBarge, Inc., of St. Louis. It was designed by Stanley Taub, a plastic surgeon in New York, and introduced to market in 1973. The cost to surgeons was $950.
label: Description
content: Ref: Stanley Taub, “Voice Prosthesis,” U.S. Patent 3,747,127 (July 24, 1973).
label: Description
content: Stacy V. Jones, “Artificial Larynx Allows Speech That Is Effortless,” <i>New York Times</i> (July 28, 1973), pp. 31 and 37.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: LaBarge, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.306407.01
label: catalog number
content: 306407.01
label: accession number
content: 306407
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Prosthesis, Voice Bak
label: Object Name
content: larynx, artificial
label: Object Name
content: prosthesis
label: Other Terms
content: Prosthesis, Voice Bak; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/2 in x 5 3/8 in x 2 7/8 in; 6.35 cm x 13.6525 cm x 7.3025 cm