The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-26
MAPS FOR The BLIND.
Interesting Facts About THOR COnstruc-
ton and Their Use.

Interesting Facts About THOR COnstruc-
tion and Their Use.
A map for tho blind Is & curiosity.
Blind people are fond OF history, and as
history cannot be properly learned, or
indeed learned at all without come
knowledge Of geography, and to learn
the latter without a map Is impossible,
something Of the kind was necessary,
and SO special maps were invented and
manufactured for tine use Of the eyeless.
They are al of the kind known az the
''dissected maps" and are Of wood-are
really carved blocks. An land stands
in relief, the mountains are IN ridges,
the rivers are long deY-essions, the state
lines are elevated. Each state Is a sepa-
rate block, aud The pupil Is taught 70 st
the blocks together and thus prepare for
himself a map Of the whole country.
The name Of each state Is marked,
sometimes on tho back. sometimes on
the front, Of the block, and the observer
will notice all over the surface Of the
blocks small aggregations Of what TO
him are meaningless dots These sFeths
names Of rivers, towns and czt2ss. Cities
are deeignated by pm or tack heads. add
the gize and shape Of these show the ap-
prozimate number Of population. IL
one map cities Of les than 900 inhab-
itRnts were indicated by pm heads Cat
on top, ard those q 10.o0O 70 %. 90 by
hemispherical Plat tack heads showed
the localities Of citics having 20.oC6 10
90, 900. rounded tack healis from 90, coo
TO 1C6 GO. Tack heads fat and square
indicated cities between 80 900 and 900
00e Tack heads round. bat with de-
preston on the top, showed cities Of
greater SIZE.
Bounding he states is 50 easy mat
ter 70 tie pupil Taking hissoar, for
example. tbs enid requested 70 DO tho
WORK Logan by placlng t3e hand hak on
the block y get a general idea Of is 20
dtion; then the forpe1ger Of the right
hand found chs northwest corzer. ran
rapidly along cts gleTated Iowa line. fol-
lowed the 3iisas1Fpi Gown TO Kznzas.
went too far ana pagsed u Helena, where
a pause vac made, the name Rad and
the mistaks discovered; rssurDsd, found
nc A4les LEdLEA ~ - eLso s4JA4 no
southern hrna Is q Psrazssot sd Dznkhn
counties, missed Is aGa;n a. TIE 81 Erza-
css ri7er. recovered II, went north. found
tie line 81 B1tIsr eo1nty. ran IL to-ths
corner 4 Mcdonald coGz4y. thence
along tho veFts.n boundary TO The Start
ing point AID tAeu gave the whole rs-
guilt orally wI:k0Ct a 2onents hexta-
ton.
b meas Il tl1e=e dizsec:sd razrs =
far idea 4 absS SzzDsd ~ ths Tuyzls a
re respective Elzs 81 vaFisEs countries
and sta-es WheD asksd 70 compare
OA1s with Texas shs Toy lad It's Ono
block CT tEs Tszss map. measured " sE,
TUNED u tk4s way, that Esy, carefully
keep.zg the csu1t with AS h1SnEs OF ia
space already covered. ka6 finally al
Eoznced that Tsx&s, according 70 rs
idea, Wa shvut FIVE tSEzss - laSss -
Ono. calculation closs sn01ga &C t5s
'r-zth 20 eIsite wonder :; Tbs accuracy
rather than criticism % /. - lack q s1sct-
ness. DissSo.e1 uAgs q evsJ cS1I1neat
are prov1ds.1. sTsd large glose, r1@Ae en-
the prInc:ples waich ur6e=iis the ooa-
stTucEo1 Of tie map. ea@5.f-s the pzpaas
% gain fair general ida G. the shape
and geographical features q Cur piAn1s-
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