The audiphone : a new invention that enables the deaf to hear through the medium of the teeth, and many of the deaf and dumb to hear and learn to speak : invented by Richard S. Rhodes : patented throughout the world : principal European office and Audiphone parlours, 225, Regent Street, London, W.

Date:
[1882?]
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Credit: The audiphone : a new invention that enables the deaf to hear through the medium of the teeth, and many of the deaf and dumb to hear and learn to speak : invented by Richard S. Rhodes : patented throughout the world : principal European office and Audiphone parlours, 225, Regent Street, London, W. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the excellence of the invention which we understand have made a very favourable impression on that gentleman. We expect shortly to be in a position to give more detailed information as to the use and the successful work¬ ing of the Audiphone, as it will in all probability be adopted as a medium of educating deaf children by the London School Board. In the meantime we commend these important facts to the attention of the School Boards, school managers, and others in the provinces, who are interested in discovering the best mode of teaching deaf children. There are numerous instances of children born deaf, and of persons who have been mutes during all the years of their lives by reason of their deafness, who can hear by means of the Audiphone, and have been taught to talk like other people. From The Rev. Wm. Si'AINER, Chief Instructor of the Deaf and Dumb, London School Board, Feb. 17th, 1881. R. S. Rhodes, Esq. Dear Sir,—I will put them in use, and I fee! quire sure that favourable results will follow. Yours faithfully, WM. STAINER. From the “Standard,” London, Monday,-Feb.28th, 1881. “THE AUDIPHONE.’’ For the afflicted as mutes every additional means of alleviation increases their enjoyment of life, and adds some¬ thing more of pleasure to their intercourse with the world, not only by the larger facilities of expressing and com¬ municating their ideas, and of receiving the ideas of others themselves, but every diminution of the painful differences between the deaf and dumb and ordinary hearing and speaking men and women is very gratefully felt by those afflicted. The London School Board has long since insti¬ tuted a department for the education of the deaf and dumb