Artificial Larynx, VoiceBak
date: label: Date made
content: c. 1970
name: label: maker
content: LaBarge, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: The VoiceBak artificial larynx was based on ideas developed by Stanley Taub, a plastic surgeon in New York; manufactured by LaBarge in St. Louis; and introduced to market in 1972.
label: Description
content: Ref: “New Device Helps Cancer Victims Talk,” <i>Hartford Courant</i> (May 5, 1973), p. 36.
label: Description
content: “Artificial Larynx Allows Speech That Is Effortless,” <i>New York Times</i> (July 28, 1973), pp. 31 and 37.
label: Description
content: Stanley Taub, “Voice Prosthesis,” U.S. Patent 3,747,127 (1973), assigned to New York Medical College.
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: 1986.0959.05
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0959.05
label: accession number
content: 1986.0959
objectType: label: Object Name
content: larynx, artificial
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 cm x 7 cm x 3 cm; 5 1/2 in x 2 3/4 in x 1 3/16 in