Radionic Model a2A Hearing Aid
name: label: maker
content: Zenith Radio Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: The Radionic Model a2A that the Zenith Radio Corporation introduced in 1943 was a small and inexpensive vacuum tube hearing aid. According to a Zenith ad from the period: “We will employ immediately in vital war work one thousand women and men who have been denied their rightful place in the war effort because of impaired hearing. We will lend such employees a new Zenith Radionic hearing aid, which will become their property, FREE OF CHARGE, after they have worked for us for sixty days.” Zenith donated this example to the Smithsonian in 1955.
label: Description
content: Ref: “War Work For 1000 Hard Of Hearing,” Zenith ad in <i>Chicago Tribune</i> (Oct. 21, 1943), p. 10.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Zenith Radio Corporation
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-06811
label: accession number
content: 205418
label: catalog number
content: M-06811
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Hearing Aid
label: Other Terms
content: Hearing Aid; Prostheses
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plasic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: batter7: 3 cm x 13.5 cm x 7.2 cm; 1 3/16 in x 5 5/16 in x 2 27/32 in
label: Measurements
content: case: 2 3/4 in x 3 9/16 in x 6 1/8 in; 6.985 cm x 9.04875 cm x 15.5575 cm