Born on January 4, 1809, in France, Louis Braille He was a child with all his physical faculties until he was 5 years old, which is when he became blind due to an accident in his father’s workshop.
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It turns out that little Louis, 3 years old, imitating his father, took an awl to make a hole in a piece of leather, but it slipped from his hands and injured him in the right eye. The worst thing is that by not being able to control the damage, the infection passed to his left eye, causing him irreversible blindness.
Braille he only enjoyed sight for a very brief time, as if fate had allowed him to see only a little, so that with that memory of the lost images he would find encouragement for the transcendental work that he later had to carry out.
Raised points.
At the age of 7 he entered the Institute for Blind Youth in Paris, where he later became a teacher. He was Braille a young man with a powerful mind, a fertile imagination, and a will that the tragedy of blindness could not break in him.
The few blind people who in those days knew how to read, Braille among themselves, they learned to do it using the difficult Haüy system (by Valentin Haüy), which consisted of raised capital letters.
Braille tried to refine and simplify it. His labors culminated in the invention of the writing system to which he owes his glory.
Braille system template. Photo Stock.
This system, which allows reading and writing, consists of six points combined and represented in relief, which allows its tactile capture.
Since 1879, the script has been universally adopted. Braille. but his creator would not live long enough to see the success of his invention. He died of tuberculosis on January 6, 1852.
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