[GreenKeys] Heavy Metal Usage in the Deaf Community

[Richard Knoppow]

    Having become rather deaf myself I find this interesting. I 
am not completely deaf but its much easier for me to communicate 
via e-mail. I still see TTY phone numbers included on bills etc 
but have never tried this.
    The Bell System  has a long history of research into speech 
and hearing and, of course Alexander Bell was very concerned with 
hearing impairment.

On 3/19/2018 2:42 PM, Jim Haynes wrote:
> A good book on the topic is "A Phone of Our Own : The Deaf 
> Insurrection
> Against Ma Bell" by Harry G. Lang.  One thing that limited usage 
> of TTD
> in the early period was the limited supply of Teletype machines; and
> the deaf people competed with radio amateurs for them.  There was an
> organization Teletypewriters for the Deaf, Inc. headquartered in
> Indianapolis circa 1974 that helped connect deaf people with 
> machines.
> 
> Harry Lang is probably not on the greenkeys list, and I don't see 
> him in
> the Rochester Institute of Technology directory, but I see there 
> is a
> Donna Lange listed in connection with the National Technical 
> Institute
> for the Deaf dalndp at rit.edu
> 
> A lot of interesting stuff was done, such as a system which 
> stored news
> on paper tape and could be dialed up from anywhere in the U.S. to 
> have
> the contents printed.


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Richard Knoppow
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WB6KBL