“TALKING” BOOKS
Lord Nuffield Gives £SOOO Towards Library for Blind SERIES OF TITLES SELECTED (British OffiolaJ Wireless.) Received 2 p.m. to-day. RUGBY, Aug. 21. A gift of £SOOO by Lord Nuffield has enabled the National Institute for the Blind and -St. T>unstan’s to begin thecompilation of a library of “talking books,” which "will be recorded for mechanical reproduction. Special machines for the use of the blind arg being manufactured. -Some 25 titles have been already selected, ranging from the Gospel of St. John to modern thrillers.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 22 August 1935, Page 6
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