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Description
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| Braille writer is attached with 2 screws to a rectangular wooden base. A paper label glued to the top right of the base has the alphabet in braille with letters also handwritten in pencil. The writer consists of a roller with a black plastic knob at left end, a half drum to hold paper, a paper bale with the right end bent to form a handle, and six braille keys with plastic tops that move along a smooth rod at the front of the machine and along a notched rail along the middle of the machine. George Maxey, a design engineer, designed prototypes of braille writers as a personal endeavor to help blind people. The museum has 3 of his prototypes. See also accessions 2003.98.2 and 2003.98.3 Metal is rusted; left key is mostly missing and parts of remaining keys are missing; label has darkened. |
Prototype of a braille writer with wooden base
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Copyright Museum of the American Printing House for the Blind
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| Maxey braillewriter |
Image Courtesy Museum of the American Printing House for the Blind. Note: use of some materials may be restricted, please call before publishing in any format.