noctograph

[nok-tuh-graf, -grahf]

noun

1. a frame used to aid the blind in writing.

Word History and Origins

Origin of noctograph¹

First recorded in 1860–65; noct- + -o- + -graph

Example Sentences

It was a contrivance called "the noctograph," meant for the use of the blind.

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A person using the noctograph wrote with a sort of stylus of ivory, agate, or some other hard substance upon the blackened paper, which conveyed the impression to the white paper underneath.

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Of his noctograph Prescott made constant use.

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And so, after a little time, he went on as before, studying "by ear-work," and turning off upon his noctograph from ten to fifteen pages every day.

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Prescott, however, had his own opinion on the subject, and, with the single exception which has just been cited, he used his noctograph for composition down to the very end, dictating only his correspondence to his secretary.

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