When Conny suddenly understood what Ingeborg Hochmair was saying to her, a new era in hearing medicine began. The previously deaf woman no longer needed to read lips – she heard. Self-soldered electronics sent electrical impulses directly to her auditory nerve in the cochlea, the so-called cochlea. For the first time, this not only worked in the laboratory, but in real life, in a room at the Vienna University of Technology. That was the end of the 1970s.
