Patent Model for a Writing Apparatus for the Blind
National Museum of American History

Patent Model for a Writing Apparatus for the Blind

Cole, James R. · ca 1872

wood (overall material)
National Museum of American History
CC0 — Public Domain
National Museum of American History

This patent model demonstrates an invention for a writing apparatus for the blind including a board with a movable guide for pencil writing (ordinary manuscript, as distinct from braille and other forms of writing with a point). The model, as it survives, consists of the guide only, without the board. The invention was granted patent number 125024.

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