Pictures for the Blind. 
Great 
Idea ^Vhich Has Opened 
World to the Sightless. 
By ERIC WOOD. 
a 
New 
G the men and women 
have devoted themselves 
ork for those deprived of 
t, none have done more 
:ing work than Mr. H. M. 
[or, whose device for pro- 
viding models and pictures for 
the blind has opened a new world to the 
sightless. Mr. Taylor, who is himself blind, 
is a man of the greatest eminence, being a 
Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and 
one of the most gifted mathematicians of the 
In nearly every instance Mr. Taylor 
adapts, transcribes, and illustrates with 
raised diagrams the books forming this series, 
thus providing perfect copy from which the 
plates are prepared. 
It is impossible to over-estimate what Mr. 
Taylor’s work has meant for the blind ; 
it has opened up possibilities that were not 
dreamt of before. It has simplified, nay, 
made possible, the study of a whole host of 
subjects, for the books illustrated by his 
embossed diagrams cover a very wide range : 
MR. H. M. TAYLOR, F.R.S., THE INVENTOR OF PICTURES FOR THE BLIND. 
day. He is a Third Wrangler, Second Smith 
Prizeman (1865), was Mayor of Cambridge 
from 1900 to 1901, is a Member of the Council 
of the British and Foreign Blind Association, 
Chairman of its Technical and Book Com- 
mittee, and Fellow of the College of Teachers 
of the Blind. About nineteen years ago 
Mr. Taylor lost his sight, and since 
that time he has devoted his life to the 
higher education of the blind. He founded, 
and is one of the managers of, the Embossed 
Scientific Books Fund, which makes sub- 
stantial grants towards the publication of 
scientific books in the embossed Braille type. 
Algebra, Euclid, astronomy, geology, sound 
and music, trigonometry, and so forth. 
Mr. Taylor’s invention does not, of 
course, appeal to the sense of colour, but 
only to that of form. 
The far-reaching nature of the discovery 
can be most strikingly and briefly shown by 
a consideration of such examples as those 
which we now proceed to give. 
It is one thing to describe, say, the 
structural appearance of some well-known 
building ; it is another to put into the sensitive 
hands of the blind a model of it. 
Regarding models of actual buildings, the 
