Artificial Larynx, Sonovox, Wright-Electrolarynx
name: label: maker
content: Aurex Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: Walter Henry Huth, a graduate of the University of Illinois, established the Aurex company in Chicago in 1935, and assigned several patents to the firm. The firm manufactured group hearing aids, and in 1939 their first wearable hearing aid. This is an example of the firm’s artificial larynx.
label: Description
content: Ref: Rachel Kaye, Christopher G. Tang, and Catherine F Sinclair, “The electrolarynx: voice restoration after total laryngectomy,” Medical Devices (Auck.) 10 (2017): 133-140.
label: Description
content: “Aurex Corp.,” U.S. Senate, 90th Congress, 1st Session, Report 306 (June 12, 1967).
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: 1986.0959.06
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0959.06
label: accession number
content: 1986.0959
objectType: label: Object Name
content: larynx, artificial, electrical
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 7/8 in x 7 1/2 in x 7 3/4 in; 7.3025 cm x 19.05 cm x 19.685 cm