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The Maico Company Inc.
MAICO, formerly known as The Maico Company Inc.,
is an American-German developer and manufacturer
of hearing instruments,
commonly known as hearing aids, founded in 1937 in Minneapolis
(Minnesota, USA)
by Leland A. Watson, a former sales clerk who realised that the existing
diagnostics equipment that was sold to doctors at the time,
was too complicated [1].
The name MAICO was derived from the initials of the words
Medical Acoustic Instrument Company.
MAICO was among the first companies who produced hearing aid equipment at
large scale, initially buit with subminiature vaccuum tubes (valves) [2].
When transistors became available in 1952, MAICO was one of the first to
make the transistion, with the introduction of the Maico Model O in 1953,
soon followed by improved – smaller – models, such as the
Model R in 1954.
It is little known, that the production of miniature audio amplifiers,
also attracted the attention of the US
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA),
and probably other agencies as well, as the new devices could also be used
in the field of eavesdropping and
covert listening devices (bugs). Between
1953 and 1957, Maico hearing aids were known within the CIA as
'the standard Maico probe' [3].
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