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THE Committee on Scientific Aids to Learning, which reports to the U.S. National Research Council, is promoting, among other things, the use of microfilm, and, as a result of its efforts, a reading machine is being manufactured which will be sold at a retail price of 32 dollars. A grant from the Committee has made it possible for Mathematical Reviews to obtain a limited number of these machines, which will be available to those who have paid their subscriptions, at the appropriate rate, to Mathematical Reviews, in advance for three years beginning this month. The history of the ‘reader’, known as the Students Microfilm Reader, goes back to the autumn of 1939. At that time an advisory group on micro-photography to the Committee on Scientific Aids to Learning, composed of Mr. Keyes D. Metcalf, director of the Harvard University Library (chairman), Profs. Ralph D. Bennett and Ernest I. Huntress of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dr. Vernon D. Tate of the National Archives, and Dr. Irvin Stewart, director of the Committee on Scientific Aids to Learning (ex officio), was requested to con-sider the possibilities of designing and making available a simple, inexpensive microfilm reading machine for the use of the individual student.
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Reading Machine for Microfilm. Nature 147, 84 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147084c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/147084c0