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BY ELECTRIC EYE . . .To operate this typewriter, the individual wears a small parallel-beam headlight which he or she focuses on a photo-electric panel board containing a specific target area representing each key of the typewriter.

Behind each letter is a photo-electric cell. This is coupled to a standard electric typewriter through an easily attached solenoid box placed over the typewriter keyboard. By flashing the headlight on the letter, the patient depresses a key on the typewriter. A fairly rapid speed can be attained with this mechanism.

This typewriter is the brainchild of Dr. Alan Ziskind, resident in Pediatrics, Boston City Hospital, and a graduate of the Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. Ziskind spent three months planning the typewriter and, with his brother, five months building it.

One of its unusual features is the ease with which it can be repaired. Should any letter cease working, it can be repaired by removing the front panel and replacing the single letter unit. Another feature is that it can be reproduced at a not unreasonable price.

Other devices which Dr. Ziskind has in mind are a photo-electrically operated court stenographic machine so the paralyzed students could take notes in class to be transcribed later on the electronic typewriter, and photo-electrically operated devices for opening doors, using the telephone and turning on and off household appliances.

BY FINGER OR FOOT . . . Typewriting by remote control, using a special "Slave" machine was designed by Mr. Robert D. Essert, engineer at IBM, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

These remote control adaptations can be operated in a reclined position by a limited foot movement or limited finger movement.

A stylus, when touched to contact points individually labeled to represent each key of the typewriter, closes an electric circuit and sends an impulse to the proper key on the typewriter. (For more detailed illustration, see August cover.)

BY MOUTHSTICK. . .To many of us , typing with a stick in the mouth is something we have seen or done, but we include this picture for the benefit of some who perhaps may not have thought of it.

We know from personal experience that many people are surprisingly accurate and rapid typists by this method.

BY TONGUE .... "Jo" Sherrill operates her electric typewriter from the iron lung with her tongue. It was created by Wesley Pattison, model maker in the Industrial Design section of General Electric in Louisville, Kentucky.

Pattison had a piece of clear plastic shaped like a pie slice. Mounted at the bottom is a white piece of plastic which controls a pointer through a special pivot. The top curved end of the clear plastic holds a metal housing on the front of which are engraved, in a single curving line, the characters of a typewriter keyboard.

Miss Sherill wiggles the end of the pointer into one of the slots in the metal housing and closes an electric circuit.

IBM, through H.W. Miller, a Vice President, donated a special "Slave" typewriter designed for remote control operation by a master typewriter. The electrical adaptations came through the cooperation of Thomas Barrett, supervisor for Southern Bell.

BY HEAD . . . The method, shown above, of no-hand typing was created by Joel Barg, requires no special fitting.

This light weight durable device can be adjusted to any head size. Easily and comfortably worn, it enables an individual to write, turn pages, type or paint with slight head movement. This apparatus is most desirable because it is the most immediately available of all pictured. The price is around $60 and is exclusively sold by Joel Barg, 1517 McGregor Street, Suite 43, Montreal. P.Q., Canada.