Browse Items (20 total)

  • Collection: Canadian Science and Technology Museum, Collections, Library and Archives

AmerFoundbrailler.JPG
braillewriter from the American Foundation for the Blind that is also apart of the CSTM collection was produced in New York by the typewriter company L.C. Smith and Corono Typewriters Inc.

Swailammeter(front).JPG
An accessible ammeter, first manufactured by Bach-Simpson and adapted by Swail as part of the NRC program for developing assistive devices for people who were blind and partially sighted.

Swail Sensor.JPG
A hand-held light sensor developed by James Swail at the National Research Council of Canada in 1966.

Swailcardreaderm1.JPG
One of the initial models of a punch-card reader invented in 1968 by James Swail of the NRC to aid computer programmers who were blind or partially sighted.

Swailcardreaderm5.JPG
The fifth model of a punch card reader invented in 1970 by James Swail of the NRC to assist computer programmers who were blind or partially sighted.

Swailclock.JPG
An accessible clock developed by James Swail in 1975 at the NRC that converted digital display through a auditory and tactile P.C. board.

GarPrinter1972(printeronly).JPG
The first prototype of Roland Galarneau's Converto-Braille, a computerized device that could transcribe written text into braille.

Galarneauprinter.JPG
The second generation of the Converto-Braille, invented by Roland Galarneau, which was purchased by Telesensory System Inc. in 1982. By 1986, it was being distributed globally as the Versapoint Printer.
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