Chair for the deaf
Date
1759
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
Object type
Library reference
R62588
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 215mm
width (print): 130mm
width (print): 130mm
Subject
Description
Figure of a chair, with details of a built-in aid for hearing, consisting of two perorated drums, with connecting conical pipework.
The accompanying article states that: ‘Two hearing funnels must be fitted to an easy chair…By this contrivance a deaf person may be as easily conversed with as if his hearing was ever so perfect, the speaker only directing his voice to the perforated base of the funnel, and the hearer placing his ear to the snout on the opposite side.’
Plate with an accompanying brief note: ‘Description of a new invented easy chair for deaf persons’, The Gentleman’s Magazine, and historical chronicle…[edited] by Sylvanus Urban, v.29, (1759), p.380.
Inscribed above: ‘A New Invented Chair for Deaf Persons’.
The accompanying article states that: ‘Two hearing funnels must be fitted to an easy chair…By this contrivance a deaf person may be as easily conversed with as if his hearing was ever so perfect, the speaker only directing his voice to the perforated base of the funnel, and the hearer placing his ear to the snout on the opposite side.’
Plate with an accompanying brief note: ‘Description of a new invented easy chair for deaf persons’, The Gentleman’s Magazine, and historical chronicle…[edited] by Sylvanus Urban, v.29, (1759), p.380.
Inscribed above: ‘A New Invented Chair for Deaf Persons’.
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