In the 1930s, Perkins set to work designing their own braille writing machine. The prototype for the Perkins Brailler was finished in 1941, though the school would have to wait until the end of ...

Braille is a tactile system that blind people use to learn to read and write, invented in 1824 by a blind French educator named Louis Braille. He revolutionized an existing writing and reading ...

BETHLEHEM -- Kelly Cusack's fingers, freshly coated with alternating pink and blue nail polish, moved in a blur of clattering motion across the six keys of a Perkins Brailler, a bulky metal device ...

Peter White's object is his Perkins Brailler. It is a Braille writing machine that works when 6 keys press holes in paper from underneath. By using different combinations of these keys the user ...

He later attended university. Ali Moustapha Dicko, who teaches at the institute for the blind, shows the use of a Standard Perkins Braille machine on Jan. 15 in Bamako, Mali. The Associated Press ...

Caroline Karbowski uses a Perkins Brailler keyboard. The startup is working on a low-cost braille reader for blind people and those with low vision (photo: Corey Wilson). Speaking to that passion to ...

“It's pretty hard!” he said about learning braille. “We start everybody off on the Perkins Brailler. So with these you load it in. Load your paper in. And you go with six keys. And you g ...

Mar. 20—Perkins ninth-grader Piper Conner arranged her Braille paper and "Brailler" on the table, waiting for the competition to start. "I was nervous, but when I actually got into the testing ...

He fixes Braille typewriters for a living and is the UK's only remaining certified fixer of the Perkins Brailler - a typewriting machine for people who are visually impaired. "I want to pass my ...

"I use a Perkins Brailler to write braille. It's very different from using a pen," said Dawn. "It's a bit like an old fashioned mechanical typewriter only it punches raised dots in the paper which ...