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What the giant presses of the modern newspaper office would mean to the ordinary reader, the rotary press which the Lord Mayor of London will start up at the National Institute for the Blind in Great Portland Street next Monday will mean to the sightless. It will give them the best possible Braille newspaper service in the quickest possible time. The fact that the new press can print .16,000 pages of Braille in an hour is not impressive compared with ordinary newspaper processes, but, as Sir Bcaehcroft Towse, V.C., the chairman of the institute, remarked to me, the processes are not comparable. A.n ordinary newspaper containing 140.000 words weighs about five ounces; a 5,000-word Braille newspaper weighs, if anything a little more. A novel which in ordinary print weighs about half a pound, if a handy edition, weighs about forty-five pounds in twelve Braille volumes.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 424, 15 November 1930, Page 14 (Supplement)
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150ONE OUNCE PER 1000 WORDS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 424, 15 November 1930, Page 14 (Supplement)
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