Who is Louise Braille?

Louis Braille is who created the Braille System is a way used by the blind to read and write. Braille is read by touching the arrangement of one to six dots. It has been adapted to every known language. Louis’s father was a saddle maker by the name of Simon-Rena Braille. His mother’s name was Monique Baron-Braille. He became blind at the age of three, when he accidentally poked himself in the eye with a stitching awl, one of his father’s workshop tools. The injury was not thought to be serious until it got infected.

                The infection got really bad until Louis other eye went blind because of sympathetic opathalmia, a kind of inflammation of the eye following trauma to one eye. At the age of 10, Louis earned a scholarship to the National Institute for the Blind in Paris, one of the first of his award in the world. Louis, a clever and creative student, became a talented cellist and organist in his time at the school, playing the organ for churches all over France.

                At the school, taught basic craftsman skills and simple trades. They were also taught how to read by feeling raised letters, a system devised by the school’s founder, Valintin Hauy. The disadvantage of his system was the students could not to learn write. The books were also heavy because the raised letters were made using paper pressed against cooper wire. Inspired by the wooden dice his father gave to him, Louis invented a system using only six dots system allowed the recognition of letter with a single fingertip showing all the dots at once.

                There dots consist of the different patterns in order to keep the system easy to learn. The Braille system also solved the problem of writing and gave a significant difference physically. Later, Braille also extended his system by including notation for mathematics and music.