Lalli

1965 · rif. 463123 — Oswego New York: State University of Oswego 1965. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 82pp. Illustrated from drawings and black and white photographs. Printed wrappers. Wrappers with some soiling and light wear crown bumped and with a short split very good. Nicholas Lalli of Ventnor New Jersey was a lifelong woodworker who was rendered blind in his mid-50s. This publication includes biographical information as well as illustrated instructions describing Mr. Lalli's techniques for making a variety of items from wood. In 1966 Lalli was granted a patent for a duplicating device for a woodturning lathe designed specially for the blind or visually impaired. The author Robert T. Hillebrand was a graduate fellow at State University Oswego. With four age-toned newspaper articles about Lalli laid in. OCLC locates two copies Utica College National Federation for the Blind. State University of Oswego unknown books