Ritter Audiac

Circa 1961 | Object #: 0059.0002

Popular Mechanics Magazine explored the new invention in 1961 reporting, “The music alone is sufficient to relieve the patient’s habitual anxiety and to obscure the fleeting twinges of pain. The real pain inhibitor is the white noise, which is added to the music in whatever portion the patient wants.”

Doctors at the time theorized that the nervous system could only take so much stimulation. If the nerve channels were filled up with sound, then relatively little pain could seep through. Listen below…