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4 unusual facts about Tactile alphabet


Tactile alphabet

Jacob Snider, Jr.'s system, using rounded letters similar to HaĆ¼y's system, which was used in a publication of the Gospel of Mark in 1834, the first embossed book in the United States.

Samuel Gridley Howe's Boston Line using lowercase angular letters, influenced by Gall's system but more closely resembling standard Roman letters

James Gall's "triangular alphabet," using both capital and lower-case, which was used in 1826 in the first embossed books published in English

Julius Reinhold Friedlander's Philadelphia Line, using all capital letters, similar to Alston's system, used at the Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania



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