FOR THE DEAF.
NEW ACOUSTICON. Biting every now and then - the edge of what appeared to be a black ping-pong bat, two well-to-do American travellers —man and wife —attracted attention during a voyage to Sydney of the liner Tahiti. The secret was that the visitors were deaf. Without the bats and their own teeth they would have been visiting Sydney in silence, unless they relied on some other acousticon. Provided they could get their bats into position quickly enough, there was scarcely any need for those who met them to know that they were deaf. This was the purpose of their little black bats (which may be made of stiff rubber, or ferro-type tin) a voice sets the bat vibrating, the sound is carried through the tcetn into the skull, which conducts it to the inner ear.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 10377, 15 May 1930, Page 4
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137FOR THE DEAF. Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 10377, 15 May 1930, Page 4
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