Louis Braille and his system

Louis Braille was born in Coupvray, France in one thousand eight hundred nine
and died in Paris in one thousand eight hundred fifty-two. He was an educator
and inventor of the Braille tactile literacy system for the blind.

When he was 3 years old, he had an accident with a leather punch in his
family's workshop that caused damage to one of his eyes. Sometime later,
that diseased eye became infected, and the infection passed to the other
eye and when he was 5 years old, he could not see.

After his accident he created a reading system for the blind, this being known
as the Braille system that is currently used by blind people for reading and
writing.

He used a system he called "night writing" for his system and by the time he
was 15 years old, he had completed his new system.

Braille characters consist of cells of six dots, two wide by three high and
form 64 basic combinations that include letters, numbers, and symbols.

Because he was loved music, he also invented a system for writing notes.

The braille system has changed the lives of many blind people around the
world. It is read from left to right like other European scripts.

Braille was not a language: it is a writing system, which means that it can be
adapted to different languages.

Louis Braille was not a scientist, but he was an inventor who changed the lives
of many people.

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