Browse Items (79 total)
Slate & stylus, Canadian Printing for the Blind Fonds, CSTM archives, Ottawa, ON, CanadaSlate & stylus (c.1980) collected by Ernst Hamm for the Canadian Science and Technology Museum in 1986.
Picht braille-writer (c.1900), CSTM artifact no. 1987.0263.001Picht braille-writer c.1900, first developed by Oscar Picht, director of the Provincial School for the Blind in Bromberg, Germany, and later director…
Blista brailler, CSTM artifact no. 1987.0267.001Blista brailler, first developed in Germany like the Picht brailler.
Anderson & Sorenson brailler, CSTM artifact no. 1987.0260.001Anderson & Sorenson braille-writer produced in Coppenhagen, Denmark
American Foundation for the Blind braille-writer, CSTM artifact no. 1987.0264.001braillewriter from the American Foundation for the Blind that is also apart of the CSTM collection was produced in New York by the typewriter company…
Swail Multimeter, CSTM artifact no. 1985.0825.001A prototype of an accessible multimeter
Swail Ammeter, CSTM artifact no. 1985.0826.001An accessible ammeter, first manufactured by Bach-Simpson and adapted by Swail as part of the NRC program for developing assistive devices for people…
Swail Sensor, CSTM artifact no. 1985.0809.001A hand-held light sensor developed by James Swail at the National Research Council of Canada in 1966.
Swail card reader, model 2, CSTM artifact no. 1985.0818.001One 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…
Swail card reader, model 5, CSTM artifact no. 1985.0821.001The 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.