Accession Number: 2003.1
Subtitle: A Weekly Journal of Practical Information in Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry and Manufactures
Summary/Description: Disbound March 5, 1864 issue of the Scientific American, pp. 145-160. Cover has illustration of locomotive ascending grade in the White Mountains. Includes 2 articles about the inventions of Stephen P. Ruggles, of Boston, for producing tactile books and aids for blind students. "What Invention has Done for the Blind," pp. 149-150, describes Ruggles' new press, type, and paper for embossing books in raised letters, and his making of tactile maps and a large tactile globe. Article includes an illustration of the type. "Improved Press for Printing for the Blind," page 152, describes Ruggles' press, invented for the American Printing House for the Blind, with an illustration above the caption "New Press for Printing for the Blind." The press was "exhibited at a meeting of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology" on December 10, 1863.
Credit Line: Museum Purchase, 2003.1
Publisher: Munn and Co.
Publisher Place: New York
Publish Date: 1864
Subjects: Advent of technology in tactile printing Embossing presses Globes for the blind and visually impaired Maps for the blind and visually impaired Tactile printing history
Physical Description: 1 issue (v.10, no.10) ; 13 1/4 x 9 1/2 x 1/8 in.