The First BTE Hearing Aids? Old Hearing Aids – Part 2
Last week’s post revolved around finding a box of old hearing aids in my garage, and wondering if any of them were interesting or rare enough that information and photographs of them should be documented. I found some really good “stuff” and wrote about some unusual hearing aids that I had found in the box. …
Read MoreAuriculostomy – First Surgical Hearing Aid Approach
This post provides an historical archive to the application of hearing aids. The auriculostomy may have been the first surgical hearing aid involvement in the fitting of amplification in that it provided an alternate approach to the application of corrective amplification involving ear-level hearing aids1. This was in 1975. It was an invention of Charles…
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