Zenith "Royal T" Transistor Hearing Aid
date: label: date made
content: ca 1955
name: label: maker
content: Zenith Radio Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: The Zenith Radio Corporation introduced its Royal-T in October 1953, promising that this tubeless 3-transistor hearing aid would operate for a full month on one tiny 15¢ ‘A’ battery. Zenith gave this example to the Smithsonian in 1955. An inscription on front reads “ZENITH / phone magnet.” That on the back reads “Zenith / ROYAL / T / the royalty of hearing.”
topic: label: Subject
content: Disabilities
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
label: Exhibition
content: Object Project
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-06809
label: catalog number
content: M-06809
label: accession number
content: 205418
objectType: label: Object Name
content: hearing aid
label: Other Terms
content: Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/4 in x 3 3/4 in x 4 3/8 in; 3.175 cm x 9.525 cm x 11.1125 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2.5 cm x 6 cm x 8 cm; 31/32 in x 2 3/8 in x 3 5/32 in