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unusual facts about hearing aid



Beltone

Founded in 1940, Beltone is a hearing aid company headquartered in Glenview, Illinois, and one of the largest, most advanced manufacturers and distributors of hearing aids in the world.

Lapsiporno.info

Electronic Frontier Finland (EFFI) have noticed that the blacklist includes non-pornographic websites also, including a Windows advice forum, a computer repair service and the Internet Initiative Japan server nn.iij4u.or.jp that, among others, hosts websites for a violin factory, a doll store and a hearing aid manufacturer.


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Edgar Villchur

Fred Waldhauer of Bell Labs heard Villchur lecture on this new hearing aid system, and started a Bell Labs project to develop a hearing aid.

Stapedectomy

The world's first stapedectomy is credited to Dr. John J.Shea Jr. who performed it in May 1956 on a 54-year-old housewife who could no longer hear even with a hearing aid.

Time travel urban legends

Nicholas Jackson, associate editor for The Atlantic, says the most likely answer is that she was using a portable hearing aid, a technology that was just being developed at the time.

Tracy King

In 1993, King was employed by the Beltone Hearing Aid Center in San Antonio, which serves sixteen counties in southwestern Texas.