Writing Appliance for use by blind people

Made:: 1840-1858 in England

inventor:: William Hughes

Portable writing desk in rosewood; writing apparatus in rosewood frame; pocket signature guide, rosewood; portable embossing machine, brass; new system of reading on card; specimen sheet of music and four other sheets used in the instruction of blind people.

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Category:: Printing & Writing

Object Number:: 1858-75

type:: mechanical writing appliance

credit:: Hughes, G A

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