The first ever e-reader? Spanish teacher 'made precursor to Kindle in 1949'Ángela Ruiz Robles invented the 'Mechanical Encyclopedia'The device used spools and pressurised air and even had a 'zoom' featureShe had plans to add sound, a reading light and a...
Ruiz Robles
Back in 1949, a Spanish woman by the name of María José Rodríguez Fortiz Ángela Ruiz Robles created a prototype of a device that was basically a very crude and primitive version of today’s e-reader. “It reportedly had a zoom function,” Moran writes, “where readers could focus in on a particular area of the text.”
The article also explains that “the device worked with pressurized air, allowing readers to add different spools containing the pre-loaded content.”
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