March 5, 2007

Tiny Tube for Hearing Aids (Feb, 1947)

Filed under: Ahead of its time, Origins — @ 9:43 am
Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Feb, 1947
| Buy on Ebay

This tube is about the same size as an entire modern hearing aid.

Tiny Tube for Hearing Aids

Only 3/4-inch long and 3/8-inch wide, tubes like this powered such war devices as walkie-talkies and mine detectors. Now their maker, Sonotone, is using them in hearing devices. Three of them go into Sonotone’s latest instrument, which can be used for either low- or high-powered amplification.

No Comments »

No comments yet.

RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI

Leave a comment

Popular Posts

Recently Last 7 Days
Last 30 Days Last Year

45 queries. 0.678 seconds.