Medicine: Teletactor

In the pit of a grey-walled amphitheatre on Northwestern University's McKinlock (downtown Chicago) Campus last week a short, stocky, professor with a twinkle in his eye told how the deaf may hear through their fingers by means of an invention he had perfected. The profes- sor: Dr. Robert Harvey Gault, 57, for 22 years professor of psychology at Northwestern. The invention: the Gault Teletactor.

Eight years ago Dr. Gault began pondering the sensitiveness of man's hands & fingers. After experimenting with an ordinary acousticon, he found that it...

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