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On this day - 1809 (Braille); January 4th
Topic Started: 5 Jan 2016, 06:57 PM (208 Views)
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Louis Braille, inventor of the Braille writing system for the blind, was born on 4 January 1809 in Coupvray near Paris, France. At the age of three, Braille injured his left eye with an awl in his father's workshop. This caused an infection in his left eye which spread to his right eye, resulting in him going blind.

From age 10, Braille attended the Royal Institution for Blind Youth in Paris. One day, retired army captain Charles Barbier de la Serre visited the school, showing the students a system of night writing using twelve raised dots representing letters and numbers which could be identified by touch. This method of communication had been created so that soldiers could pass orders silently at night. Braille, then thirteen years old, experimented with and adapted the system by using just 6 dots, which were easier to manipulate. By the time Braille was fifteen, he had developed the system sufficiently for use by other blind students.

Braille is now widely in use for sight-impaired people throughout the world.

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