Robert
Moon accompanied his father on his popular
lecture tours and on Moon Society business.
At the age of
15 he helped William deliver a Moon Press to
Rotterdam by public transportation very much as
computers are carry-on airline luggage today.
Examples of
raised line maps and diagrams produced by Robert
Moon can be found in both Brighton
Reference Library and
.in Brighton Museum's collection donated in 1990 by The
Brighton Society for the Blind.
Robert was
probably responsible for the beautiful Moon
animal blocks on public display in the museum's
'My Brighton' room.
Robert C. Moon
qualified as a medical doctor specializing in eye
surgery. He married an American in 1886 and
settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where they
raised 3 children.
As secretary
of the Pennsylvania Home Teaching Society Robert
promoted his family's work at the glamorous and
highly technological 1904 St. Louis' World Fair.
The exhibition was entitled: The Education of the
Blind with Special Reference to the Moon
Alphabet." The following year he established
the monthly Moon Magazine .
A curious
mystery surrounds Robert's relationship to
Brighton's scandalous Ethel Moon, the first wife
of the famous barrister Sir Edward Marshall Hall.
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