Object Details
- Description
- The Zenith Envoy was a very small air conduction transistorized hearing aid in a gold metal case. The Hearing Aid Division of the Zenith Radio Corporation gave this example to the Smithsonian in 1962.
- Ref: “Zenith Offers a Hearing Aid 57% Smaller,” ad in Chicago Tribune (Jan. 5, 1961), p. D5.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Zenith Radio Corporation
- Physical Description
- metal, aluminum (overall material)
- porcelain (overall material)
- plastic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1 cm x 6 cm x 2.5 cm; 13/32 in x 2 3/8 in x 31/32 in
- overall: 1/2 in x 3 1/8 in x 2 7/8 in; 1.27 cm x 7.9375 cm x 7.3025 cm
- Object Name
- Hearing Aid
- hearing aid
- Other Terms
- Hearing Aid; Prosthesis; Electric; Transistor
