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The Sonotone 1010 hearing aid, introduced on 29 December 1952, was the first commercial product to use transistors, which had been invented five years earlier in 1947.〔 〕 It was a hybrid design, using two miniature vacuum tubes as input stages and a single transistor as the output stage; this was required because the transistors at the time produced too much electrical noise. Even using one transistor considerably extended battery life, lowering the operating cost of the unit. As transistors improved, this model was replaced by all-transistor hearing aids.〔http://www.hearingaidmuseum.com/gallery/Transistor%20(Body)/Sonotone/info/sonotone1010.htm Sonotone 1010 at the Hearing Aid Museum, retrieved December 30, 2009〕 The Sonotone company had its headquarters in New York and was established in 1929.〔http://www.roger-russell.com/sonopg/sonopg.htm ''The Sonotone Corporation'', retrieved December 30, 2009〕 The company was bought by various other companies and was no longer in business by 2005. ==See also== *Deafness *History of hearing aids 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sonotone 1010」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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