C124M Cochlear Implant
date: label: Date made
content: 1997
name: label: maker
content: Cochlear Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: A cochlear implant is a small electronic device that can help provide a sense of sound to a person who is profoundly deaf or severely hard-of-hearing.
label: Description
content: Ref: Albert Mundry and Mara Mills, “The Early History of Cochlear Implant,” JAMA Otolaryngol. Head and Neck Surgery 139 (2013): 446-453.
label: Description
content: M. Hainarosie, V. Zainea, and R Hainarosie, “The evolution of cochlear implant technology and its clinical relevance,” Journal of Medicine and Life 7 (2014):
label: Description
content: William F. House, The Struggles of a Medical Innovator: Cochlear Implants and Other Ear Surgeries (2011).
label: Description
content: “Dr. William F. House, Inventor of Pioneering Ear-Implant Device, Dies at 89,” New York Times (Dec. 16, 2012), p. 36.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Australia
topic: label: Subject
content: Cochlear Implants
label: Subject
content: Disabilities
label: Subject
content: Prosthesis
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Cochlear Corporation through Doug House, Vice President of Marketing
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1997.0206.01
label: accession number
content: 1997.0206
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0206.01
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0206.01.02
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0206.01.03
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0206.01.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cochlear implant kit
label: Object Name
content: transmitting coil
label: Object Name
content: speech processor
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall, case: 28 cm x 31 cm x 9 cm; 11 1/32 in x 12 7/32 in x 3 17/32 in
label: Measurements
content: overall, case: 3 1/2 in x 12 in x 10 1/2 in; 8.89 cm x 30.48 cm x 26.67 cm
label: Measurements
content: cochlear implant itself: 16.1 cm x 7.2 cm x 1.8 cm; 6 11/32 in x 2 27/32 in x 23/32 in
label: Measurements
content: transmitting coil: 19 cm x 3.6 cm; 7 15/32 in x 1 13/32 in
label: Measurements
content: speech processor: 9 cm x 7 cm x 3.2 cm; 3 17/32 in x 2 3/4 in x 1 1/4 in