Hearing Aid
notes: label: Description
content: The inscription on the box holding this carbon hearing aid reads “THE GEM EARPHONE CO. / NEW YORK.” That firm was established in 1912, and advertising the earphone by 1914. It showed a hearing aid at the Panama-Pacific Exposition held in California in 1915 and took home a gold medal.
label: Description
content: Ref: Gem Ear Phone Co., Cause Thy Ear To Hear (1915).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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: 2015.0172.02
label: catalog number
content: 2015.0172.02
label: accession number
content: 2015.0172
objectType: label: Object Name
content: hearing aids
label: Object Name
content: hearing aid
label: Other Terms
content: Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 7 3/8 in x 3 1/2 in; 7.62 cm x 18.7325 cm x 8.89 cm