The Beginning of Braille

Braille is a system of writing and printing for blind or visually impaired people, in which varied arrangements of glyphs, or raised dots representing letters and numerals, are identified by touch. It was created in the early 1820's and is one of the most important developments in the education of people who are blind. Today, Braille is the standard reading and writing system for the blind. Louis Braille, a young Frenchman, was born in a …

…this system and after three years, by the age of 15, had simplified it to the system we now know as Braille. This system has 6 raised dots based upon normal spelling. He soon went on to create Braille representations of music and mathematical expressions. Louis Braille later became a teacher and then died on January 6, 1852, at the age of 43, from tuberculosis. Over 180 years after Louis Braille's invention, it still remains unmatched by any later technological creations.