MAP FOR THE BLIND
COMBINATIONS OF DOTS. The blind people, who miss so much of the beauty in life, are to have their own war map. An expert at the National Institute’s London headquarters recently tapped dots in a metal plate from which Ihe paper copies of a war map will eventually be embossed. Using a hammer and a set of punches, the embosser stamps out various combinations of dots to indicate the main features of the vast battlefield. One kind of dot represents the Siegfried Lino, another the Maginot Line. another the frontier, and another the river system. The position of a town or village is shown by a key letter in Brailo, which is an alphabet of raised dots by which blind people read with their finders.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 May 1940, Page 6
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129MAP FOR THE BLIND Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 May 1940, Page 6
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