Artificial Larynx, Bell 2-A
date: label: Date made
content: c. 1930-40
name: label: maker
content: Western Electric
notes: label: Description
content: The Bell 2A artificial larynx was developed at Bell Laboratories, manufactured by Western Electric, and distributed at cost by the Bell Operating Companies. It incorporates designs developed by Robert R. Riesz (b. 1903), a physicist who joined the technical staff of the Bell Laboratories in 1925.
label: Description
content: Ref: Western Electric Co., <i>No. 2A Artificial Larynx</i> (1929).
label: Description
content: “‘SOUNDLESS SOUND’ ‘HEARD’ BY BRAIN,” New York Times (Nov. 21, 1930), p. 25.
label: Description
content: Robert R. Riesz and George W. Burchett, “Artificial Larynx,” U.S. Patent 1,910,866 (May 23, 1933).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of James C. Shanks
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0959.02
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0959.02
label: accession number
content: 1986.0959
objectType: label: Object Name
content: larynx, artificial
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 cm x 9 cm x 2 cm; 3 15/16 in x 3 17/32 in x 25/32 in