The categorisation of hearing loss through telephony in inter-war Britain

IF 1 1区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY
Coreen Mcguire
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ABSTRACT The telephone in inter-war Britain was an important tool in both the identification and categorisation of individual hearing loss. Between 1912 and 1981, the British Post Office had control over a nationalised telephone system. Linkage between telephony and hearing has long been noted by historians of sound and science, and Post Office engineers in the inter-war period had considerable expertise in both telecommunications and hearing assistive devices. This article first demonstrates how the inter-war Post Office categorised different kinds of hearing loss through standardizing the capacity of its users to engage effectively with the telephone, and secondly investigates how successful it was in doing so. By utilising the substantial but little used material held by BT Archives, we can trace the development of the Post Office’s ‘telephone for deaf subscribers’ and explore how it was used to manage and standardise the variability of hearing and hearing loss within the telephone system.
在两次世界大战之间的英国,通过电话对听力损失进行分类
在两次世界大战之间的英国,电话是识别和分类个人听力损失的重要工具。1912年至1981年间,英国邮局控制着一个国有化的电话系统。声音和科学的历史学家早就注意到电话和听力之间的联系,在两次世界大战期间,邮局的工程师在电信和助听设备方面都有相当多的专业知识。本文首先展示了二战期间邮局如何通过标准化用户有效使用电话的能力来对不同类型的听力损失进行分类,其次调查了它在这样做方面的成功程度。通过利用英国电信档案馆保存的大量但很少使用的材料,我们可以追溯邮局“聋人用户电话”的发展,并探索如何使用它来管理和标准化电话系统中听力和听力损失的可变性。
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16.70%
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期刊介绍: History and Technology serves as an international forum for research on technology in history. A guiding premise is that technology—as knowledge, practice, and material resource—has been a key site for constituting the human experience. In the modern era, it becomes central to our understanding of the making and transformation of societies and cultures, on a local or transnational scale. The journal welcomes historical contributions on any aspect of technology but encourages research that addresses this wider frame through commensurate analytic and critical approaches.
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