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Show Device will aid handicapped in use of telephone service More than 1,000 Utahns could benefit from a new device de-vice being developed by Bell T e 1 ephone Laboratories and Western Electric. According to Jack Dalton, district manager for Mountain States Telephone, the invention, inven-tion, Code-Corn, will help the deaf-blind to "feel" and the deaf to "see" telephone conversations. conver-sations. Through a simple system of amplifiers and oscillators, the set will convert impulses from telephone lines into both touch and flashing light signals, By caller communicates with a deaf-blind person over a vibrating vibra-ting disc on the set. The deaf-blind deaf-blind person will actually feel the message. In addition to the vibrating disc, the new device will have a light that blinks according to the code. This will allow deaf-seeing persons to read incoming in-coming messages. |