Hearing Aid
notes: label: Description
content: Kenneth Harry Dahlberg (1917-2011), a triple ace with the USAAF during World War II, established Dahlberg Electronics, in North Minneapolis, Mn., in 1948. The Dahlberg Miracle Aid, a transistor-powered hearing aid, was on the market by 1955. This example is a Dahlberg Magic Ear II.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Kenneth H. Dahlberg, Link in the Watergate Chain,” <i>New York Times</i> (Oct. 9, 2011), p. 30.
label: Description
content: Ad for the Dahlberg “Miracle Ear” in [Washington, D.C.] <i>Evening Star</i> (Sept. 6, 1955), p. A-5.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.0165.683.02
label: accession number
content: 2012.0165
label: catalog number
content: 2012.0165.683.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: hearing aid
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 1 1/2 in x 2 1/8 in; 1.27 cm x 3.81 cm x 5.3975 cm