Hearing Aid
name: label: maker
content: Otarion Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Denison B. Hull (1897-1988), architect and founding president of Otarion, Inc., a firm then located in Chicago, donated this hearing aid to the Smithsonian in 1942. One inscription reads “OTARION / A-1 / PATS. PEND.” Another reads “MADE IN U.S.A. / BRUSH / HEARING AID / MICROPHONE / TYPE . . . / U.S. PATENTS . . . ” with notices of patents in Great Britain and Canada.
label: Description
content: Ref: “New Hearing Aid Just Developed,” <i>Boston Globe</i> (Oct. 27, 1940), p. C1.
label: Description
content: Otarion ad in </i>Boston Globe</i> (Jan. 26, 1941), p. C1.
label: Description
content: “Denison Hull, architect, Greek scholar,” Chicago Tribune (Feb. 6, 1988), p. 8.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Denison B. Hull
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-05125
label: accession number
content: 163660
label: catalog number
content: M-05125
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Hearing Aid
label: Object Name
content: hearing aid
label: Other Terms
content: Hearing Aid; Prostheses
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic, lucite (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 cm x 6.3 cm x 8.7 cm; 13/16 in x 2 1/2 in x 3 7/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5/8 in x 2 1/2 in x 3 1/4 in; 1.5875 cm x 6.35 cm x 8.255 cm