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Archive Home > 2009 > August > 23 > Marsters’ machine helps deaf people communicate

Marsters’ machine helps deaf people communicate

Inventor came up with early version of text telephone

By Dennis Hevesi / The Bulletin
August 23, 2009

Sign language, lip reading and speech training helped James Marsters get through college and dental school and made it possible for him to succeed as an orthodontist. He could communicate very well face to face.

But for most of his first 40 years, the telephone was a barrier.

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