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American Printing House for the Blind

Braille multiplication teaching device; flexible red plastic disk that can be turned by openings on each side of the cardboard encasement, edge of disk is toothed; surface covering over the disk of yellow poster type finish, with an opening between the ears of tactile image of smiling rabbit head; APH address at bottom "1839 Frankfort Avenue/Louisville 6, Kentucky"; legend on front, "ARE YOU BRIGHT AS A BUNNY? THE ANSWER'S BETWEEN HIS EARS".

H-11.375 W-11 D-0.25 inches

ca. 1958

American Printing House for the Blind

Louisville, KY

Found in the district vision resource room at East Meadow High School, East Meadow School District, Long Island, New York. "This device is an aid to mathematics designed as an incentive to learning the multiplication tables, squares and cubes through #12. It consists of a thick board, approximately 11 inches square, on which has been mounted a bright red plastic wheel embossed with the numbers and fitted with fluted edges for manual turning and a gear mechanism to position the wheel for reading. A sheet of heavy yellow paper is mounted over the face of the wheel and the base board with a v-shaped hole cut out at the top so that the Braille numbers can be read when the wheel has been turned to the proper position for the desired table. The device was invented for the seeing by Mr. G. Gilbert Scott of Los Angeles, with whom arrangements were made for adapting it for use by the blind and producing and distributing sets through the Printing House. The first lot of this device is now ready for distribution." APH Annual Report, November 10, 1953. The product was discontinued in 1971.

Gift of East Meadow School District, East Meadow, Long Island, New York.