William Bell Wait
Subsequent to graduating he obtained a teaching position at the New York Institute for the Education of the Blind, where he spent two years.He was subsequently appointed Emeritus Principal, and served until his death, which took place at his home in New York City on October 25, 1916.[3] Wait developed a keen interested in raised letters and tried to devise a tangible printing and writing system.[3] Before his death Wait oversaw the adaptation of his point system to more than twenty different languages, including Hebrew, Arabic, Japanese and Chinese.He later developed a printing press which used a breakthrough process which allowed for embossing on dual sides of a book page.
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