Telex 957 Telemite Hearing Aid
date: label: date made
content: 1954
name: label: maker
content: Telex
notes: label: Description
content: The Telex Company, of Minneapolis, introduced wearable vacuum tube hearing aids in 1939, and transistorized models in 1953. The firm donated this model 957 Telemite to the Smithsonian in 1955.
label: Description
content: Ref: Telex ad in Washington <i>Evening Star</i> (Jan. 6, 1953), p. B-12.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Telex
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-06816
label: catalog number
content: M-06816
label: accession number
content: 205419
objectType: label: Object Name
content: hearing aid
label: Other Terms
content: Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/4 in x 3 1/8 in x 3 3/4 in; 3.175 cm x 7.9375 cm x 9.525 cm