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US Patent No. 312897 Electric Fencing Target for Instructing the Blind R La Rocca 1964 vintage football The Grand Repository New YorkUS Patent No. 312897 Electric Fencing Target for Instructing the Blind Rs La Rocca 1964 La Rocca's filing renders fencing through circuitry and sound, a target rigged to answer the blade with a signal a sightless student could read by ear. The schematic belongs to that mid century moment when the salle met the electrical age, and the touch itself became something measured. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the