BOON TO THE BLIND
A TALKING BOOK AMERICAN INVENTOR'S . CLAIM Australian Press Association. NEW YORK, 7th April. Dj;. Willis Whitman, director of the Schenactady Laboratory of, the General Electric Company, believes he will aid tho blind by producing a "talking book," with which he has boon working for a considerable time. Asked when i,t would definitely appear, he said, "Eomind me of it in a month." The device looks like a camera filled with strip film, w,hich winds ~nd unwinds a number of times, issuing words | from several trapks through a loudspeaker. Dr. Whitman believes a film lasting two hours will be sold for about six dollars.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 83, 9 April 1928, Page 9
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107BOON TO THE BLIND Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 83, 9 April 1928, Page 9
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