Miniature Rifle Range For The Blind
Another new British development for the use of blind people was shown at Brighton recently when Sir lan Fraser, the blind member of Parliament, opened the first Miniature Rifle Range for the use of blind ex-servicemen.
The range consists of a fifteen yard single target with a rifle mounted on a swivel stand. The operation of “sighting” .is carried out electionically. Affixed to the rifle barrel and surrounding it is a screen of circular metal wired on one side with a highly funded frequency oscillator. The barrel of the rifle is connected to the other side of the oscillator and beats against the tuned section.
When the barrel is accurately sighted the buzizng stops. The blind rifleman then knows that he is “on the target.” This accident-proof rifle range is the invention of Air Commodore Dacre, Commandant of St. Dunstan’s, London.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 55, 14 June 1948, Page 2
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