English: Illustration on the cover of an electronics magazine of use of the first mass market vacuum tubehearing aids in 1933. Amplifying hearing aids, made possible by the invention of the triode vacuum tube by Lee De Forest in 1906, had just come on the market a few years before, and were a great improvement over previous crude electric hearing aids that used the amplifying ability of a carbon microphone. The hearing aid consisted of a box about the size of a loaf of bread, with a built-in microphone, that the user directed toward the speaking person, with a plug-in headphone. The illustration shows two hearing-impaired men using the hearing aids on a train.
Alterations to image: Cropped out extraneous text on the cover.
This 1933 issue of Radio News magazine would have the copyright renewed in 1961. Online page scans of the Catalog of Copyright Entries, published by the US Copyright Office can be found here. [1] Search of the Renewals for Periodicals for 1960, 1961 and 1962 show no renewal entries for Radio News. Therefore the copyright was not renewed and it is in the public domain.
Note that it may still be copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works (depending on the date of the author's death), such as Canada (70 years p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 years p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 years p.m.a.), Mexico (100 years p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 years p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.