W8AXT 1933 Akron, Ohio

Earl Charles Hanson, W8AXT, W8BEG, 8AXT and 6CQ, Silent Key (c.1892-?). He was still listed as W8AXT in the 1983 Callbook.

He was a prolific inventor and had numerous patents. In 1917 he invented a compact radiotelephone system, followed by the first commercially produced hearing aid. During World War I he worked with the U. S. Navy improving and testing his system that would lead ships through harbors. He also dabbled in underground radio (U.S. patent 1,373,612).

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Info & Photo courtesy of W5KNE
Photo of Earl C. Hanson, 6CQ, The Wireless World (Great Britain), April 1914.