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Library / Engineering & Technology / Monthly supplement of the penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 21, June 30 to July 31, 1832 / Braille

Monthly supplement of the penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 21, June 30 to July 31, 1832 ⠃⠗⠋ braille edition

Grade 2 — contracted English braille (EBAE-compatible subset). Translated on this server by our own braille engine (BRF — Braille Ready Format, Library of Congress fdd000551). View Grade 1 instead.

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47,290 braille cells · 49 embossed pages at 40×25 · 233 unrepresentable characters omitted

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These are the same pages the .brf download embosses — form-feed breaks and all. BRF opens in braille software (Duxbury, BrailleBlaster), on embossers, and on refreshable displays.