Hall Braille Writer
date: label: date made
content: Ca. 1892
notes: label: Description
content: Frank Haven Hall (1841-1911), superintendent of the Illinois Institution for the Education of the Blind, announced his invention of a Braille writer in May 1892, and displayed an example at the World's Columbian Exposition in October 1893. A label on this early example reads “MORITZ SCHURR / WIEN.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Austria: Vienna state, Vienna
topic: label: Subject
content: Braille
label: Subject
content: Disabilities
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Courtesy of the Perkins School for the Blind, through Mr. Kenneth A. Stuckey
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.319895.01
label: catalog number
content: 319895.01
label: accession number
content: 319895
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Writer, Braille
label: Object Name
content: braille writer
label: Other Terms
content: Writer, Braille; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: grey (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 3/4 in x 16 3/4 in x 8 1/2 in; 14.605 cm x 42.545 cm x 21.59 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 in x 16 3/4 in x 8 1/2 in; 15.24 cm x 42.545 cm x 21.59 cm