Louis Braille (1809-1852) designed the coding system, based on patterns of raised dots, by which the blind can read through touch. Braille designed a coding system, based on patterns of raised dots, which the blind could read by touch. Born in...

Braille designed a coding system, based on patterns of raised dots, which the blind could read by touch. Born on January 4, 1809, Coupvray, France, Braille was accidentally blinded in one eye at the age of three. Within two years, a disease in his...

1809-1852 French educator who developed a system of printing and writing by which the blind could write in relief and read by touch. That system, braille, which consists of a six-dot code in various combinations, was officially named after him in 1834....

Louis Braille (January 4, 1809 – January 6, 1852) was the inventor of braille[1], a world-wide system used by blind and visually impaired people for reading and writing. Braille is read by passing the fingers over characters made up of an...

Only three books in the school library. And young Louis Braille, who had come to this strange, lonely place to learn to read, could read none of them. Louis Braille was only ten years old when he became a student at the...

LOUIS Braille could not believe it All he wanted to do was learn how to read, but the one-room school in Coupvray, France, had no books for a blind boy. This was common in 1815. Blind people didn't learn to read or write....