Picht braille-writer (c.1900), CSTM artifact no. 1987.0263.001

Picht braille-writer (c.1900), CSTM artifact no. 1987.0263.001

braille-writers and assistive technologies

Picht braille-writer c.1900, first developed by Oscar Picht, director of the Provincial School for the Blind in Bromberg, Germany, and later director of the State Blind Institute Berlin-Steglitz. First manufactured in 1899 by the company B.R. Herde and F.R. Wendt, and continued production until the 1930s

Photograph by Beth A. Robertson

B.R. Herde and F.R. Wendt Co., Canadian Science and Technology Museum Corporation, Ottawa, ON

Carleton University Disabilities Research Group

c.1900

Photograph by Beth A. Robertson. Use with permission.