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Braille Upwriter

Advance Engineering Works

Rectangular black and red plastic upwriting slate; knobs on sides advance paper one line with audible and tangible click; 32 cells in fixed top frame, raised dots on frame below; five raised reinforcing ribs on top frame above cells; two red plastic styli with hollow tips are stored in slots on each side directly in front of paper advance knobs; two rubber feet on base; cast into base, "AEW" and "INDIA".

H-1 W-10.5 D-2 inches

2012

Advance Engineering Works

Dehradun, India

A prototype offered to the APH product development team by Advance Engineering Works in Dehradun, India. AEW was founded in 1982 to manufacture braille writing tools, educational aids, canes, and other products for people who are blind or visually impaired. APH reviewers found it compact, portable, rugged, and a reasonable solution to the preceived problem of "backward" brailling, but also found that it made shadow dots in unused dots within a brailled cell, and that it required very precise placement of the stylus to create an acceptable dot.

APH Collection, 2012.32