Greibach Bone Conducting Hearing Aid
date: label: date made
content: 1933 - 1936
name: label: maker
content: Sonotone Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: Emil Henry Greibach (1898-1976) was born in Austria, moved to the United States in 1924, earned a physics Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1928, and contributed to the development of bone conduction hearing aids. This example is an early commercial model of Greibach’s bone conduction hearing aid. It was made by Sonotone. Dr. Greibach gave it to the Smithsonian in 1974.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. E. H. Greibach, Ph.D.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.312614.07
label: catalog number
content: 312614.07
label: accession number
content: 312614
objectType: label: Object Name
content: hearing aid
label: Other Terms
content: Medicine