Louis Braille (/ breɪl / brayl; French: [lwi bʁɑj]; 4 January 1809 – 6 January 1852) was a French educator and the inventor of a reading and writing system named after him, braille, intended for use by visually …

5 days ago · Louis Braille (born January 4, 1809, Coupvray, near Paris, France—died January 6, 1852, Paris) was a French educator who developed a system of printing and writing, called Braille, that is …

Louis Braille died on January 6, 1852 at the age of 43, having lived a successful life as teacher, musician, researcher, and inventor. In 2009, the world celebrated Braille's Bicentennial.

Although the work of many others contributed to his accomplishment, Louis Braille's invention of a tactile six-dot reading and writing system revolutionized the way blind people perceived and contributed to …

Sep 6, 2024 · At just age 15, Braille devised a revolutionary system using raised dots to expand reading options for blind students like himself. In 1819, 10-year-old Louis Braille became the youngest...

Between 1824 and 1825, Louis Braille created a system of raised dot letters that could be read with the hands. Initially ignored, his invention would be universally adopted by the 20th century,...

And because Louis Braille loved music, played the piano and the cello himself, and excelled at the organ, he adapted his system for music at the age of 19, when he incorporated music scores into his …

The Louis Braille Museum illustrates the life and legacy of the creator of the braille code—a system of raised dots representing letters, numbers, and punctuation which revolutionized the way blind people …

2 days ago · Louis Braille (January 4, 1809 - January 6, 1852) was a French educator, inventor and disability rights pioneer whose life’s work transformed the meaning of literacy for the visually impaired ...

4 days ago · In the 1820s, Louis Braille devised a raised-dot system of letters, numbers and musical notation. 200 years later, it’s still opening the music world for blind musicians.