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Equipment - Object, Pyke-Glauser Braille machine

  • Metal rectangular plates joined with metal keys and connecting puncher that moves across the page

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  • Metal rectangular plates joined with metal keys and connecting puncher that moves across the page

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  • Metal rectangular plates joined with metal keys and connecting puncher that moves across the page

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  • Metal rectangular plates joined with metal keys and connecting puncher that moves across the page

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  • Paper tray for Brailler is extended out in this image

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  • Metal rectangular plates joined with metal keys and connecting puncher that moves across the page
  • Metal rectangular plates joined with metal keys and connecting puncher that moves across the page
  • Metal rectangular plates joined with metal keys and connecting puncher that moves across the page
  • Metal rectangular plates joined with metal keys and connecting puncher that moves across the page
  • Paper tray for Brailler is extended out in this image

Historical information

Edward Pyke and Jean Maurice Glauser invented this machine with the intention of enabling the easy and quiet production of Interpoint Braille. Although widely agreed to be one of the best Braille machines of its time, production of the machines was stopped during the Second World War because of rationing and high material costs. The machine has a keyboard arrangement at one end, the other end folds out to form a platform which is held up by a metal strut with rubber capping. An upward writing model, the paper feeds from the rear and passes under the space bar. The machine has no paper feed rollers. The only movement is that of the carriage that moves from left to right.

Physical description

Painted metal machine with metal keys that move a carriage across inserted sheets of paper

Inscriptions & markings

Royal National Institute for the Blind
228 Great Portland St
London W1
Pyke-Glauser Braille Writer
PG 48

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