Hearing Aid
name: label: maker
content: Sonotone Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: Hugo Lieber (1868-1936) was born in Germany, moved to New York in 1891, established a chemical company and a trade newspaper for the gaslight industry, and became a founding member of the Radium Institute of America. Turning his attention to audiology in the early 1920s, he began importing hearing aids made by Siemens in Germany, established the Sonotone Corporation in 1929, and built a factory in Elmsford, N.Y. He unveiled his first bone conduction receiver in 1933. The Sonotone Corporation donated this example to the Smithsonian in 1939. It is a No. 499 audicle, with “SONOTONE / REG. U.S. PAT. / MADE IN U.S.A. / ELMSFORD, N.Y.” inscription.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Bone Conduction Hearing Aid,” <i>Scientific American</i> 148 (Jan. 1933): 38.
label: Description
content: “New Device Carries Sound To Deaf Through Bones,” <i>Science News-Letter</i> 24 (Sept. 2, 1933): 153.
label: Description
content: “New Device Makes Deaf Hear Through Teeth,” <i>Popular Science</i> (Nov. 1933): 51.
label: Description
content: “They Opened America’s Eyes To Its Ears,” Sonotone ad in <i>Life</i> (March 11, 1940): 19.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Elmsford
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-04743
label: catalog number
content: M-04743
label: accession number
content: 151423
objectType: label: Object Name
content: hearing aids
label: Other Terms
content: Medicine