Show blind to see usual print by new device paris two french inventors MM AIM thomas and conland have devised an apparatus by which ordinary print can be made legible tor for the blind the apparatus Is called the photo electrograph A ray of light Is made to pass over the printed page and as each letter Is illuminated the corresponding sp letter Is presented in relief and in magnified magni fled form in another part of the machine where the blind read er ide identifies fles it by touch inot only ordinary print but braille can be read with the machine in the latter case it has the advantage that the braille characters can be printed with ink on a smooth page and need be no larger than ordinary type thus reducing braille types to a convenient size and making them cheaper and easier to produce than hitherto |