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THE Council of St. Dunstan's has set up a committee to be known as the Sensory Devices for the Blind Committee, and the following have agreed to serve: Prof. E. D. Adrian, professor of physiology, University of Cambridge (chairman); Dr. Clifford Paterson, director of the Research Laboratories, General Electric Co., Ltd., Wembley; Mr. Thomas Smith, superintendent of the Light Department, National Physical Laboratory; Flight-Lieut. E. Barton; Dr. B. H. C. Matthews, head of the R.A.F. Physiology Laboratory, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough; Mr. H. L. Kirke, head of the Engineering Research Department, B.B.C.; and Sir Ian Fraser. The Committee has had two preliminary meetings and on its advice St. Dunstan's has decided to set up a Research Unit and to seek the full-time services of a research physicist and a biologist. Through the generosity of an anonymous benefactor, a substantial sum of money has been made available for the work of the Committee over a period of five years. The Committee will not only investigate guiding devices for the blind but also methods whereby the printed word in an ordinary book can 'read aloud' to the blind; the improvement of recorded talking books; braille machines, and other apparatus. The research work will include the better use of the little glimmer of sight which remains with many people who are technically blind, and the substitution of the sense of sight by the other senses.
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Sensory Devices for the Blind Committee. Nature 156, 200–201 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156200d0
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