Page Turner: Mary Jameson and the Optophone

Daina Bouquin: It is nineteen eighteen, and Mary Jameson is reading. She was born blind, and she usually reads braille.

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of mary, machine, optophone, including: She was born blind, and she usually reads braille.

1. 01Alexander Graham Bell had used it in an instrument that transmitted sound on a beam of light
2. 02His instrument is housed in a slender wooden box
3. 03The First World War interrupts his work, but he returns to it, building an instrument that turns the shapes of printed letters into sounds