Category: WWI Fighter Plane Noise

Howard Hughes: The Road to Hearing Loss, Part II

Robert Traynor 1920s Hearing Aids / American History / Audiology / Audiometry / Deafness / Deafness and Telephone use / Estimated HEaring Losses of Famous people / Hearing loss / Hearing Loss in the Elderly / Noise as a health hazard / noise exposure / Noise Induced Hearing Loss / Telephone use by the Deaf / tinnitus / WWI Cockpit noise / WWI Fighter Aces / WWI Fighter Plane Noise

Last week we discussed the bizarre behavior of one of the richest people in world history, Howard Robards Hughes, Jr. There are reasonably credible stories that have surfaced about Mr. Hughes suggesting that the person on record as dying as Howard Hughes while descending into Houston April 12, 1976 may not have actually been him.…

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The Deafening Noise of WWI Air Combat

Robert Traynor Army Audiology Centers WWII / Audiology / Audiology and War / Dr. Moe Bergman / Hearing loss / History and HEaring Loss / Military Audiology / Military Casualties- Tinnitus / Military Casulties - Hearing Loss / Military Hearing Loss / Moe Bergman / WWI Cockpit noise / WWI Fighter Aces / WWI Fighter Plane Noise

This week, on November 11, Americans and people around the world, observed the 96th anniversary of the end of  World War I.  The holiday, which is now called Veterans’ Day in the U.S. and Remembrance Day in Canada, is still known in many other countries as Armistice Day. It  is a time to remember and honor those who fought and died not only in the…

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