VINTAGE ANTIQUE BLISTA BRAILLE MECHANICAL TYPEWRITER

AN OLD BLISTA BRAILLE MECHANICAL TYPEWRITER MANUFACTURED IN GERMANY
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STILL IN GOOD CONDITION EXCEPT FOR SOME MINOR RUSTY PARTS AND SCRATCHES AS PER IMAGE
GOOD WORKING CONDITION
COMES WITH CASE WHICH IS IN FAIR CONDITION WITH RUSTY BRACKETS

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DIMENSION:(WRITER) 370MM L (PLATEN) X 250MM W X 130MM H

SOME GENERAL INFO FROM THE NET:

"Braille" was named after the Frenchman Louis Braille. Its origin is a military one. In early-19th century, the French officer Charles Barbier tried to use characters (and the combination of dots) for military purposes. Messages should be readable in the darkness of the night without the risk of drawing the enemy by the light. In 1929, Louis Braille used this method to develop the today's international Braille language. "Blista" was also born during the war. It started its activities with a group of war-blinded persons of World War I, being under medical treatment at the Marburg University hospital. Since St. Elisabeth, the special care of sick and disabled persons had become a real tradition in Marburg. The patients wanted to do more than producing baskets. In Carl Strehl, a committed blind philosophy doctoral candidate, they found the perfect teacher and person looking after their education and rehabilitation. In 1916, he founded the "German society of Blind Academicians" and the "Deutsche Blindenstudienanstalt" - to give young war-blinds the chance to graduate and study at the university. Soon it was joinned by young blind civilians as well so that a secondary school for the blind was founded - the today´s Carl Strehl School.

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WEIGHS ABOUT 8 KG PACKED

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