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Alan Thorpe is Britain's last certified fixer of them. He took some of the machines to a special conference to mark World Braille Day in Britain on Saturday and to mark the 200th anniversary of the Frenchman Louis Braille inventing embossed type. One of his machines dates back to the 1880s. Jane Hill asked Alan, who is blind to himself, to describe the Perkins Braille typewriter.