Which strange Swiss-produced “touching observe” are something special so you’re able to Helen Keller away from John Hitz, the new superintendent of your own Volta Bureau, Alexander Graham Bell’s Arizona, D.C. heart for the deaf. Although it is to start with created for diplomats like Hitz to help you discreetly tell amount of time in the brand new dark, brand new watch’s studded deal with allowed Keller, blind and you may deaf given that ages of 19 months, to help you detect this new hour and you can estimate second by the impression the career of watch’s hands. Almost forgotten to your a beneficial 1952 visit to New york city, this new check out is actually certainly one of Keller’s prized assets. Fortsett å lese Chris Evert’s tennis racket • c. 1978