Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 189, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1910 — DICTIONARY FOR THE BLIND [ARTICLE]

DICTIONARY FOR THE BLIND

Sightless Wizard is Author of Most Wonderful Book—Printed In Braille Type. Vienna.—A notable achievement for the benefit of the blind is the first French-German dictionary printed in Braille type. This work demanded an extraordinary amount of minute and laborious precision, and was carried out by Herr Karl Sat?enhofer, who is himself blind, at the printing works of the Vienna Institute for the Education of the Blind. . . It is the well known Lagenscheidt dictionary which has been put into Braille type. The main difficulty was that in order to economize space the work had to be printed in what is known as the abreviated type, which in France is different from the system followed In Germany, and called for an intimate knowledge of both systems on the part of the translator. Even with the use of the abreviated type the work consists of five ponderous folio volumes. Among the first orders for the new work was one from Helen Keller.