Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1919 — Reading by Ear. [ARTICLE]

Reading by Ear.

A new invention for the blind enables them to read with their ears. It is a machine called an octophone, by means of which flashes of light from the letters as they are printed cause certain sounds, easily distinguishable by the initiated. The sounds vary with the shapes of the letters, and very high resistance telephones trasmlt these to the ears .of the blind person, “reading" with highly satisfactory results.