The New York Institute for Special Education is a private nonprofit school in New York City. The school was founded in 1831 as a school for blind children by Samuel Wood, a Quaker philanthropist, Samu
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William Bell Wait
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William Bell Wait was a teacher in the New York Institute for the Education of the Blind who invented New York Point, a system of writing for the blind that was adopted widely in the United States bef
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…first run for the White House. She spoke of Cleveland as a hard worker who encouraged her to stand her ground against the domineering superintendent. William Bell Wait, a teacher at the institute, invented New York Point, a system of writing for the blind that enjoyed wide use in the United States before the Braille…
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William Bell Wait (c. 1900)