Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1906 — A New Aid to the Blind. [ARTICLE]

A New Aid to the Blind.

Dr. George M. Gould, the Philadelphia 1 eye specialist, writing to the New York Science of the recently improved Ilonlssen device for the reproduction of speech, known as the telegaphone, suggests that this be employed to take the place of the cumbersome, expensive, slow and wearying embossed letters and points through which books are now made available to the blind. In this way a book could be read to the sightless or to the invalid while the patient lies in bed, and lectures, concerts, recitations, etc., may be had at will. Letters may be dictated or spoken upon tie; thin sheets of steel, and these, after being sent by mall to a distant friend, will reproduce the voice of the sender exactly as to inflection, pitch and emphasis. The record may be used again and again.-^-^— —