Hugh Hetherington Hearing Aid Museum
Hugh Hetherington Hearing Aid Museum

The Hearing Aid Museum

Hearing Aids of all types—Ear Trumpets, Carbon Hearing Aids, Vacuum Tube Hearing Aids, Transistor Hearing Aids, Body Hearing Aids, Eyeglass Hearing Aids and much more!

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General Information—Transistor Ear-level Hearing Aids

Transistor Ear-Level Hearing Aids—General Information

The development of transistors allowed for the miniaturization of hearing aids because transistors were much smaller than vacuum tubes and didn't require 2 high-powered batteries to run them.

Thus, only 3 years after the first completely transistorized body aid came out, manufacturers had found ways to shrink the hearing aid down into a behind-the-ear model.

In the following years further miniaturization led to in-the-ear aids (ITE), then even smaller in-the-canal aids (ITC) and finally tiny completely-in-the-canal (CIC) hearing aids.

The 3 classes of ear level hearing aids in the museum are:

  • Behind-the-ear (BTE) hearing aids
  • Eyeglass style hearing aids
  • In-the-ear (ITE) aids including In-the-canal (ITC) and Completely-in-the-canal (CIC) hearing aids as well

You can gain an overview of each of these classes by clicking on the links to them below.
 

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Example of a Transistor
Ear-Level Hearing Aid

Click on the "Transistor (Ear)" button (on
the left) to see the details of this and other transistor ear-level hearing aids
.

 

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The Hearing Aid Museum

is sponsored by

The Center for Hearing Loss Help

"where you will receive the information, support and counsel you need in order to live an exciting and fulfilling life in spite of your hearing loss"