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Welcome to this edition of Ableton On Air, the one and only program that focuses on the needs, concerns, and achievements of the differently able. I've always been your host, Lauren Seiler. Arlene's here today. Hi, Arlene. Okay. On this edition, we will focus on, now, let me just, before we get to what we're focusing on today, we would like to say we're sponsored by Washington County Mental Health, Green Mountain Support Services, Muslim Media Corporation, which includes Park Chester Times, New York Parrot Online Newspaper, and the Muslim Community Report. And we are also thankful that we are members of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Boston, New England Chapter, the Boston Emmys, and many, many, many, many other people that support us, including the Vermont Division for the Blind and Visionary Impair. Thank you very much for joining us on this edition of Ableton On Air. Our guest today is Andrew Berson, a Manhattan historian, as well as a former employee of the New York City Housing Authority. Welcome, Andy, to Ableton On Air. Okay. On today's edition, this week, I had the pleasure of going, over the next couple of weeks, I will be having the pleasure of having a hearing aid. So while we are talking about that, I figured we would talk about the inventions of the telephone, and which includes Alexander Graham Bell, who was deaf, as well as Thomas Alva Edison, if that's the correct name. And we will talk about his inventions. So, Andy, why don't you start with Thomas Edison's inventions? Let's pull him up. So, he was born, I'm sorry for interrupting you, Thomas Alva Edison was born February 11th, 1847, and he died October 15, 1931. He was an American inventor, businessman, who had been dedicated and described as the greatest American inventor. He developed many advices such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. Go ahead, Andy, go ahead. Okay, Thomas Edison, with a different style, close to the air, is dangerous. Okay. Ignites from the air. So, what are some of his inventions that, while talking about sound, he created a phonograph, correct? Stock ticker. What exactly, for those that don't know, what is his stock ticker? In quotations from this. Okay. And also, go ahead. And it's also enclosed in a bell jar. Also, we're embedded the first, okay, no, in camera, moving picture camera. In terms, well, in terms of receivers and transmitters and all this situation. In 1876, Edison began work to improve the microphone for telephones that at the time was called a transmitter by developing the carbon microphone, which consists of two metal plates separated by granules of carbon that would change resistance with the pressure of some waves. A steady direct current is passed between two plates through the granules that varying resistance results in modulation of the current, which creating electric current that reproduces and varying pressure of the sound wave. Up to this point, microphones, such as the ones developed by John Philip Race and Alexander Graham Bell worked by generating a weak current. The carbon microphone works by modulating the direct current and subsequently using the transmitter to transfer the signal generated by the telephone line. Edison was one of the many inventors working on the problem of creating a usable microphone for the telephone to modulate electrical current passed through it. His work was concurrent with Emil, his name was Emil Bernleiners, loose contact carbon transmitter who lost a later patent against Edison over the carbon transmitter invention. David Edwards Hughes studied in the published paper on the physics of loose contact carbon transmitters which Hughes did not bother with the patent. Edison used the carbon microphone concept of 1877 to improve the telephone for Western Union, hence Western Union. In 1876, Edison found a way to improve the bell telephone microphone which included which of loose contact ground carbon which is discovery and that worked for better of the carbon was roasted. This type was put into use in 1890 and was used by telephones along the bell receiver in 18 until the 1980s. Go ahead, Andy. Andy, you want to add to that? Go ahead, take your time. Thomas Edison, Victoria Cole, the Wizard of Mendel Park which he invented the incandescent light bulb which we all use today. We're better for worse. Another life-saving invention. As a matter of fact here, we might run it for a couple of seconds. There's an actual voice clip of the phonograph invention and Thomas Edison's voice. When he created the phonograph his first words were Mary had a little lamb. Let's roll that clip for two seconds. There you go. That was his actual voice. When hearing aids and everything, as a matter of fact, let's look this up quickly. As a matter of fact, I'm going to find it. The first person who created the hearing aid was Miller Reese Hutchinson who invented the first hearing aid. The first electric hearing aid was invented in 1898 by Miller Reese Hutchinson. He used electric current to amplify sounds. The design itself was a carbon transmitter allowing the device to be portable. In what year? In what year? In any year. In any year. In what year? In what year? In what year? 1898, Miller Reese Hutchinson. H-u-t-c-h-i-s-o-n. Go ahead, Andy, about keep continuing, please. Andy? Yep. Go ahead. All right. So let's go on to Alexander Graham Bell. Since we are talking about him, Alexander Graham Bell. All right. Alexander Graham Bell was born March 3rd, 1847 and died August 2nd, 1922 with Scottish born inventor and engineer who created in the inventing and patent the first practical telephone and he also co-founded the American Telephone and Telegraph Company 18 and T in 1885. Bell's father and grandfather and brother had been associated on the work of of Elocution and Speech and both his mother and wife would death profoundly influencing Bell's life work, life's work. His research on hearing and speech further led him to the experiment of hearing devices which eventually culminated in Bell's in Bell being awarded the first U.S. patent for the telephone on March 7th, 1876. Bell considered the invention and intrusion of his of his real work as a scientist and refused to have the telephone in his study. Many other inventions marked in Bell's life including the groundbreaking work of optical telecommunications, hydrofoils and aeronautics. Although Bell was not one of the 33 founders of the National Geographic Society, he had a strong influence on the magazine while serving as second president on January 7th, 1898 until 1903. Beyond his scientific work he had a deep interest in emerging science and emerging science of heredity. Interesting. Let's you want to know the price of the first telephone which is ridiculous but yeah price of the first telephone was three thousand something. I remember that time was um how much did the telephone cost in the 1900s? Okay each phone had a separate line the cost of telephone service was three dollars for businesses oh no wait and $1.50 for residential customers these prices did not change until 1919. The first let's see 1800s. The first long distance call in 1876 was nine dollars and had about 30 minutes of actual talk time and the in the whole machine the whole telephone machine cost three thousand nine hundred ninety five dollars at that time there was a lot of money because his business was struggling in 1876 Bell offered to sell the patent to Western Union for a hundred thousand dollars but remember we're talking about 1876 and at that time there was a lot of money so he was a rich man. The first telephone sold the first oh wait when was the first telephone sold the first telephone sold while in while an Italian innovator Antonio Magucci was was credited inventing the first basic phone in 1849 the Frenchman Charles Berlesoul devised the phone in 1854 Alexander Graham Bell won the first US patent of the device in 1876 so it was international first and then then anything you want to say or anything about that yeah that's something but but was Bell Atlantic name after the Alexander Graham Bell yeah yep yeah I knew it yeah because we used to have baby villains you know the first rotary phones yeah I remember those okay so yeah I had that um this house run for it in December the December 28th 1871 Antonio Magucci files patent the patent number was 33 53 a notice of intent to invent but not a formal patent not a former not a formal patent at the US Patent Office for his device he named the sound telegraph in 1872 in 1872 Elisha Gray establishes Western Electric Manufacturing Company Western Union so the history of sound has a good history pretty much um now in terms of the hearing aid let's go back to that the first hearing aid patent okay who who invented the first hearing aid oh let's go back to Miller Reese Hudson's the first electric hearing aid was invented in 1898 by Miller Reese Hudson in his design was the electric current that amplified weak signals in 1913 the the world was introduced to the first commercially manufactured hearing aids the history of hearing aid systems okay how much do the hearing aid cost back then I can find that out hearing loss is not and we have um Zach we might go over that's okay okay um hearing loss is not a new condition people have suffered from it for centuries until the 16th century it was commonly accepted by individuals with hearing loss who have suffered from multiple disabilities this led them to being heavily discriminated it is not until a Spanish monk named Pedro Ponce taught a nobleman's deaf son to to read write and do math now we'll go to the first hearing device okay hold on the first hearing device not hearing aid but the first hearing device was invented it was called an ear trumpet it was invented in the 17th century and confident and considered the first device that helped the hearing impaired these trumpets came in a number of shapes and sizes and were made of everything from sheet iron to animal horns the next advancement did not appear until the 18th century with the invention of the collapsible ear trumpet Frederick C. Reign was the first to commercially produce these trumpets in 1800s in order to make the devices less noticeable Reign created acoustic headbands which hid the devices within the user's hair now let's look at the price okay so for more information on hearing aids or the history of hearing aids you can go to www.hearingsystemsinc.com that's www.hearingsystemsinc.com or you can call if you would like to find out more information about cochlear implants hearing aids hearing loss or or anything of that nature you can call 1-281-855-8916 this is a this is a hearing aid consortium if you would like to find out about hearing aids you can go to www.hearingaid hold on www.hearingsystems.hearingsystemsinc.com okay so let's really quick before we end let's go to the amount of money that hearing aids cost first hearing aid cost okay hearing aids are oh here we go currently currently if you need a hearing aid the FDA regulated medical devices that are worn in or behind the ear which cannot which people cannot easily afford them hearing aids are very expensive on average a set of hearing aids may cost anywhere from a thousand to five thousand dollars or more so yeah the first one cost let's see doesn't say that hearing aid prices here we go in 1920 the Williams Acculator hold on in 1920 the the original price for hearing aids in real dollars at the time was converted to a value representing its cost and was so and and it was sold in the year of 2000 of constant dollars okay a carbon hearing aid model 100 in the year 2000 was $1034 so but here there is a chart it really doesn't say the earliest oh the first date sold oh here we go the first vacuum tube for the hearing aid was 1953 the transistor was 1961 and the first carbon hearing aid was 1939 the earliest was 1908 but it really does not say the price so they go anywhere between a thousand and five thousand dollars so i'm assuming way back when now there are organizations if you cannot afford a hearing aid you can go to like um the lions club and places like that but um andy i would like to thank you for joining us on this edition of ableton on air thank you so much for joining us hello thank you thank you folks okay um well uh this puts an end now actually before we end let's um find out where in vermont you can get a hearing aid before we um okay um actually if you would like to find out in vermont where you can get a hearing aid you can go to um oh yeah here we go um you can go to vermont audiology which is 81 river street um uh and also you can go to the uvm medical center at the family allen uh complex in uh colchester but i would like to say this if you would like to find out more about hearing aids i suggest that you contact your insurance and your provider and they will give you um more information about that because we don't want to send anyone to the wrong place um in terms of getting a hearing aid um please make sure before you purchase a hearing aid that you go to your primary care doctor and your provider uh in the state of vermont or anywhere that you might see this program um we don't want to give out the wrong information but we would like to um thank um andrew burson for joining us on this edition of abledon on air andy you're still there i'm here okay thank you for joining me on this edition of abledon on air um we are sponsored by washington care and mental health green mountain support services um uh muslim uh muslim community report new york parrot online newspaper and um purchase the times as well as many many many others and we would also like to thank the um the um vermont division of um blind and visually impaired for uh supporting us for with abledon on air and it's many other um situations with the show and um again i'm lauren syler i'm lauren syler see you see you next see you next time abledon on air is sponsored by green mountain support services empowering people with disabilities to be home in the community washington county mental health where hope and support comes together media sponsors for abledon on air include park chester times muslim community report w w w this is the bronx dot info associated press media editors new york parrot online newspaper us press corps domestic and international anchor fm and spotify partners with abledon on air include yehad new york and new england where everyone belongs the orthodox union and the vermont division for the blind and visually impaired abledon on air has been seen in the following publications park chester times new york parrot online newspaper muslim community report w w w this is the bronx dot info and w w w dot h dot com abledon on air is a member of the national academy for television arts and sciences boston new england chapter