1998.70

Large size Improved Stainsby Braillewriter

Large size Improved Stainsby Braillewriter; "ordinary" keys (keys arranged for writing braille as on a braillewriter); chrome plated steel mechanism screwed to aluminum bed plate; pins on the bottom of the bed plate lock into corresponding holes in an accompanying board(not present in this accession); sliding carriage with bell on left; six spring loaded point keys, space bar on right, single carriage release lever on right; stamped on left, "OK"; stamped on right, "MK-3/G8864".

H-3.125 W-13.5 D-2.625 inches

ca. 1975

J. M. Glauser and Sons; Royal National Institute for the Blind

England

There is no record of how this artifact was received. Henry Stainsby (1859-1925), Supt. of the Birmingham Royal Institution for the Blind, (later General Secretary of the British & Foreign Blind Association) along with Birmingham manufacturer Albert Wayne, introduced their portable brailler writer around 1903. An "improved" version, featuring aluminum parts and a paper clamp allowing accurate interpointing or interlining, was announced in "Outlook for the Blind" as early as 1927 and available generally by 1933 in the RNIB catalog. By 1978, RNIB sold the Improved Stainsby in a number of formats, including a large version available with interlining and interpointing board, and a small version with a folding board. Both large and small models came in ordinary and reverse keyed versions.

APH Collection, 1998.70