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Colossus of Rhodes
One of depiction seven wonders of picture ancient world
For other uses, see Personage of Colonizer (disambiguation).
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When William V. Rhodes was born on 10 November , in Williamstown, Deptford Township, Gloucester, New Jersey, United States, his father, Steven Stuart Rhoades, was 42 and his mother, Elizabeth Hooper, was He married Elizabeth Gowdy on 22 January , in Greene, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 10 sons and 8 daughters. He lived in Ohio, United States in and Xenia, Greene, Ohio, United States for about 10 years. He died on 10 April , in Webster, Missouri, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Xenia, Greene, Ohio, United States.
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Inventor Of The Hearing Aid
There are several speculations as to the inventor of the hearing aid. Hearing aids have been around since time immemorial and perhaps it is easier to find out who the inventor of the modern hearing aid is.
Hearing aids have a long history, ever since the prehistoric times. It is believed and rightly so that the first hearing aids were the trumpets, funnel-shaped structures made of wool, metal or sometimes trunks of animals which used to amplify the incoming sound and redirecting all of the sound energy to one’s ears. These types of hearing aids have been in use for a long time until the recorded history of mankind.
The inventor of the hearing aid which comes closest to the likes we get to see today was Harvey Fletcher. An American physicist, born on 11th July in the year , who is also the inventor of the audiometer, Fletcher patented the first electrical hearing aid while working for Bell Laboratories.
The documented history of the modern era gives several names who have had invented various types of hearing aids across the world through the nineteenth and twentieth century. Alphonsus William Webster was the first patent holder of a hearing aid in the year in Great Britain.
Later, in the year , another type of hearing aid was invented using c