Category: Acoustic Coupler

Development of the TTY – Part IV: The Final Chapter

Robert Traynor Acoustic Coupler / Audiology / Deafness / Deafness and Telephone Communication / Deafness and Telephone use / Famous Deaf individuals / Famous Deaf Inventors / Famous Inventors / Hearing Europe / Hearing impairment / Hearing loss / Hearing Loss in the UK / Hearing loss worldwide / History and HEaring Loss / How Cell Phones Work / New products for the hearing impaired / NEw Technology for the Hearing Impaired / Sign Language / Telephone use / Telephone use by the Deaf / TTY Relay Systems

This week at Hearing International marks our “Final Chapter” in the development of the TTY.  Over the past few weeks we  found that the story began with Robert Weitbrect’s invention of the acoustic coupler,  a collaboration with Dr. James Marstens and Andrew Saks (see Part I, Part II and Part III).  These pioneers of the TTY…

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Development of the TTY – Part III

Robert Traynor Acoustic Coupler / Audiology / Consumer electronics for hearing loss / Deafness / Deafness and Politics / Famous Deaf individuals / Famous Deaf Inventors / Famous Deaf Scientists / Famous Inventors / Father of Telephone Communication for the Deaf / Hearing Devices / Telephone use / Telephone use by the Deaf / TTY

Welcome to Hearing International’s third component of the development of the TTY.  In parts 1 and 2 we learned that the inventor of the TTY, Robert H. Weitbrecht; a deaf orthodontist from Pasadena, James C. Marsters, and Andrew Saks, a deaf engineer and heir to Saks 5th Avenue, met at an A.G. Bell Convention in Salt Lake City in…

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