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Miller Reese Hutchison (August 6, 1876 – February 16, 1944) was an American electrical engineer and inventor. He developed some of the first portable electric devices, such as a vehicle horn and a hearing aid.
The Senso was the first commercially successful, full digital hearing aid, and was created by Widex in 1996. After the success of the Senso, Oticon began marketing their own hearing aid, the DigiFocus. [2] Current digital hearing aids are now programmable which enables them to regulate sound on their own — without using a separate control.
(Arthur) Edwin Stevens CBE (17 October 1905 – 29 January 1995) was a Welsh inventor who designed the world's first wearable electronic hearing aid. He was also a philanthropist, becoming a major benefactor to the Royal Society of Medicine, and to Jesus College, Oxford, at which he had studied between 1927 and 1929.
Harvey Fletcher (September 11, 1884 – July 23, 1981) was an American physicist. [1] Known as the "father of stereophonic sound", he is credited with the invention of the 2-A audiometer [2] and an early electronic hearing aid.
Body worn aids were the first portable electronic hearing aids, and were invented by Harvey Fletcher while working at Bell Laboratories. [13] Body aids consist of a case and an earmold, attached by a wire. The case contains the electronic amplifier components, controls and battery, while the earmold typically contains a miniature loudspeaker.
The Oticon Real is an over-the-ear hearing aid that comes in two styles: behind-the-ear (BTE) with the receiver in canal (RIC) or behind-the-ear where the hearing aid hooks over the top of your ...
Style of hearing aid: There are a few main styles of hearing aids, each with its own potential benefits and drawbacks: Behind-the-ear (BTE), Receiver-in-canal (RIC), In-the-ear (ITE), In-the-canal ...
Sonotone 1010 in case, with headphones. The Sonotone 1010 hearing aid was introduced on 29 December 1952. It was the first commercial product to use transistors, which had been invented five years earlier in 1947.