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Show ' " ' " mmmmmm ! ' m O Development by various research re-search organizations, in cooperation co-operation with the American Foundation for the Blind, of specially adapted instruments and tools provide many new opportunities for gainful employment em-ployment of the blind and assist as-sist blind women to move as efficiently and as rapidly in their kitchens as their more fortunate sisters who can see. As shown above, a pencil guide enables a sightless composer to write music at the rate of a page in 12 minutes for a simple tune. Blind people may draw or write the lines of the top surface of the cellophane of this rubber-covered drawing draw-ing board (left) with hold-down hold-down clips; a ball-point pen, filled with a colorless lubricant, lubri-cant, is used- .... ..... ' ,t f . l , : 1 mi I tt- ill J I The instruments shown or- above are timing devices second-timers for blind people A) work in photographic dark ut ,ooms. These instruments were developed 'after studies by the era- ' thai American Foundation for the eW At right is an outdoor Wle thermometer, popular ith blind poultry raisers and W gardeners and for green-hwes. green-hwes. This product also is a result of research and develop- "entat'the foundation for the ; blind. j T 5 T 1 ! ' ' -v ' - ) i V - MP it - -; rv - rr-- - X. N.v ' . t - A t-dard 0-1.0-inch micrometer p.us a simpie vermer slid.ng bo. and collar prov.de a means I ing sizes accurately within 0.002 in. by touch. Raised lines on th. rn,.r . d th . o..-i o..-i ''-e the usual number, The "mike" set to the p.rt to be measured an d ?h. , to th 0025 inch, 1S determined by slidmg vern.er bor up against the lower d of the K '"'tin,, with the fmcerncl, the two raised I n of the vernier most nearly |