Hearing Aid
date: label: Date made
content: c.1940
label: date made
content: c. 1940
name: label: maker
content: Acousticon
notes: label: Description
content: Black plastic vacuum tube hearing aid with bone conduction transducers, and a “Model A-45 NO. 008965 / Trademark Registered United States Patent Office / Dictograph / Sales Corp. / Acousticon / Made in USA” inscription. The form was on the market in the early 1940s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Waterbury
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Acousticon
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0328.17
label: model number
content: A-045
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0328.17
label: accession number
content: 1978.0328
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Hearing Aid
label: Other Terms
content: Hearing Aid; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2.5 cm x 10.5 cm x 6.2 cm; in x 4 1/8 in x 2 7/16 in