The blind man's world an English version of Entre aveugles : advice to people who have recently lost their sight / by Emile Javal ; translated by W. Ernest Thomson.

Louis Émile Javal

Date:: 1904

Credit: The blind man's world an English version of Entre aveugles : advice to people who have recently lost their sight / by Emile Javal ; translated by W. Ernest Thomson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$rca/ling by tJi/; «ry«/ To all thw it rnay U; ()\>y/,i('A that in w<jry hn^nof^'i there u tome »y»tem of amtrn/.U-A Braille. Sjjeakiog only of tfjc Frcrjch »y»tem, tli/j gain in »jxi*4 i» alxmt one qtjarter. A« t/^ nra/iin^^, exixrri/;n/>; f/rov«« that thirrc )•> no «a»n at all. At the 'rrid of k<jt r;/mtiiry Mr, ffall, an American, brr/ught out an exwil/mt HrailUt tyj^'r^riter. 'Hir'^j ktyf frti *:ach side are work/;d witfi thr<;<; fini^er» of f^ach hand* I »upjx>»e that with thi» ma/;hine tfu; writing »peed is the tiame for omiplex a» for »inglft jxint krtt/rr» and ix^wuts. Drawba/;k» to t^i/; u)ie of thi/; Hall ty|>ewriter are its higli j^ric^; (125 irunc^, (jt over ^(5), its w^oi^t of v.-vera) kil/>grarn» (i ki^^rarn =2]fthlbg.), and the nois*;. lJoubtle»» tfiese will \}cjjjrn(t k»» a» the machine is improved, 1/ut I do not think it will ever oust the p^x:ket Braille frame. With the Hall ma/;hine, or any otfi/rr like it, v/riting is at least three times as fast as with the style. For • Tbofe.who are iniKTtuVA in niu!*tum» of thj» kixid can rcf« to rny article* wj the phywol/^y ol reading wfajch appeared in the Antuilet d'oculf.tu^w, 1^7^ and /^79, t^» my artK;le« on the hyzi';ne of r';a/lirjg irj the liixlUlvn 'U la H'/rAi:U: fU m^.dicMte pwAvjWi, 1^-7^, aa'l in the CompU^ vnruluf. d« la 'ri'tou;U: d« fA/iU/gU, iZy, an'i i'J7>, to rny article '/n \//>\i>. an/] >.r^^t».i^ht, lO;<jWi Scienlift^^ue, 22n/J N'ovemr^, i^Jy^, an/1 Kevue d'hy^utu:, i^^v; to my article on the evolutk/n of printing in it* retati/yn t/j tae hvgiene of vwir/n, SctentifKjit^, 2.'^Ui June, an'l k>^ju« d hy^Une, i ^^ji. See alvj i^ui^Tt. \>i>, mouvement* den yetiz p>endant Ja. lecture (from my kthxvratory) C'/mpU% rmndui d* la Soov.tK Fran/;ai%n d'ophlalnujl'j'^ie, i''//^,, p. $S4- All these arti/,le» are repr<-xJuced in a volume at present in the prew, to be puhlhh-A h/y Felix Alcan, Pari»,$