Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1895 — A NEW EAR-PIECE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A NEW EAR-PIECE.

It Will Add to the Comfort and Convenience of Telephone-Users. A New York inventor has introduced a pneumatic cushion for the receiver of a telephone, which seems well adapted to its purpose. It is made of soft rubber and is fitted into a metal rim.

which clamps over the end of the receiver and forms there a complete airchamber. Not only will tins device prevent the buzzing sound that telephone users are familiar with and dislike, but it will better, regulate the distance to-the eardrum. Its touch is soft and pleasant to the ear.

NEW ’PHONE DEVICE.