Category: Western Electric 2A Audiometer

Hearing Testing History: Western Electric 2-A Audiometer

Wayne Staab Leave a comment Aram Glorig / Audiometer / Audiometric zero / Bone conduction / Chuck Berlin / Hearing / Hearing Testing / James Jerger / Pure tone audiometry / Sonotone / Western Electric / Western Electric 1A Audiometer / Western Electric 2A Audiometer

Western Electric 2-A Audiometer Most hearing care professionals have heard or read that one of the early audiometers for the measurement of hearing sensitivity was the Western Electric 2-A audiometer.  Few have any idea what it looked like or what it did.  This post is pleased to bring to readers some of the best detailed…

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Trivia: History of Hearing Testing

Wayne Staab Leave a comment ANSI / Audiology / Audiometer / Audion / C.C. Bunch / David Edward Hughes / Electronics / Harold Westlake / Hearing / Hearing Testing / Helmholz / Isaac Jones / James Jerger / Lee de Forest / Leland Watson / Maico / Raymond Carhart / Robert Bárány / Robert Margolis / Tuning fork / Vacuum tube / Vern Knudsen / Walter Hughson / Wayne Rudmose / Western Electric 1A Audiometer / Western Electric 2A Audiometer

At the 2013 Audiology Now meeting in Anaheim, a group of us (Robert Margolis, Charles Berlin, Jay Hall III, and myself, were invited to give a presentation on topics related to the History of Audiology (hearing testing, hearing aids, and vestibular testing).  That which follows takes on the format of questions, utilizing materials from the…

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