More than 40 years ago, Mona Andersson from Sweden becomes the first person to get a Cochlear™ Baha® bone conduction implant.

Cochlear is the first organisation to have a multichannel cochlear implant approved by the Food and Drug Administration in the US.¹

1978 - Rod Saunders becomes the first person to get a multichannel cochlear implant. "Hello Rod," are the first words he hears.

In 1982, at 37 years old, Graham Carrick becomes the first commercial Cochlear^™ Nucleus^® implant recipient.

At the age of 4, Holly McDonnell was the first paediatric recipient of the Cochlear™ Nucleus® implant.

At 102 years old, Jack Walley is the oldest cochlear implant recipient to date.

Cochlear's sound processors were the first to feature dual microphones,² which allow people to pick up on sound from all around them.

Pictured: the Nucleus® Freedom™ cochlear implant system 2005.

Cochlear implant sound processors are the world's smallest and lightest,³ so they're less intrusive and more comfortable for people to wear.

Our bone conduction and cochlear implants were the first to deliver Made for iPhone sound processors⁴, which allow people to stream music, phone calls and entertainment directly to their sound processor.