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Definition

  • Device intended to convert light into sound, patented by Raoul Hausmann [DA]; instruments designed to enable a blind person to read, in which a photoelectric cell is used to scan a text and produce electric signals that are converted into audible ones corresponding to the different characters [OED]

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  • 121033

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-VQN57CBJ-Z

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