PIONEERS AND PERFECTORS OF HEARING EQUIPMENT

Evening Star, Issue 25565, 18 August 1945, Page 9

PIONEERS AND PERFECTORS OF HEARING EQUIPMENT

BELL-WESTERN ELECTRIC It is, a far cry from the invention of the telephone to the marvellous intercommunication systems of to-day. Yet, when Alexander Graham Bell discovered how to transmit and reproduce speech electrically, he laid the foundation for vast new discoveries which have made possible the time-and-space-eliminating services we now enjoy. Working together for over 60 years Bell' Telephone Laboratories have_ designed, and Western Electric Company have constructed sound equipment of many kinds. They have pioneered the fields of radio broadcasting and talking pictures, and perfected machines for the swift exchange of world news in picture story. 7 Western Electric Hearing Aids are the outcome of all this intensive research and experience in mastering the problems connected with speech and hearing— They are designed by Bell Telephone Laboratories, made by Western Electric, and assembled to meet individual needs by. audiometer test. Proved by practical tests, they have brought sound hearing to many. Western Electric Hearing Aids are guaranteed by the makers and again bv the New Zealand distributors, Charles Begg and Co. Ltd., the Musical and Electrical Centre. Convenient terms arranged if the purchaser desires, but consultation and free audiometer tests; are gladly given without obligation. —[Advt.]