Chorded keyboard (a writing system for the blind) uses either 6 or 8 tactile 'points' from which all letters and numbers are formed. When Louis Braille invented it, it was produced with a needle holing successively all needed points in a cardboard sheet. In 1892, Frank Haven Hall, superintendent of the Illinois Institute for the Education of the Blind, created the Hall Braille Writer, which was like a typewriter with 6 keys, one for each dot in a braille cell. The Perkins Brailler, first manufactured in 1951, uses a 6-key chord keyboard (plus a spacebar) to produce braille output, and has been
Disability publications in the U.S. print periodicals. This general-interest magazine originally was published both in braille and New York Point, an embossed writing system no longer in use. The magazine's founder, Mrs. William Ziegler, was the mother of a blind son and an heiress who solely funded the publication. Her endowment continues to provide for free distribution of the "Ziegler," as it is known. The "Braille Book Review" began in 1938 and described the newest books in Braille from the National Library Service for the Blind. Once sound technology was more prevalent, "Talking Book Topics" was founded in the 1930s to give the blind community