Louis Braille's (January 04,1809 – January 06, 1852) 207th Birth Anniversary Monday January 04,2016

 

Louis Braille(January 04,1809 – January 06, 1852)was a French educator and inventor of a system of reading and writing for use by the  Blind or Visually Impaired  which remains known worldwide simply as  Braille

Blinded in both eyes as a result of an early childhood accident, Braille mastered his disability while still a boy. He excelled in his education and received scholarship to France's Royal Institute for Blind Youth 

 

While still a student there, he began developing a system of tactile code that could allow blind people to read and write quickly and efficiently. Inspired by the military cryptography of Charles Barbier,Louis Braille constructed a new method built specifically for the needs of the blind and presented his work to his peers for the first time in 1824.

In adulthood,Louis Braille served as a professor at the Institute and enjoyed an avocation as a musician, but he largely spent the remainder of his life refining and extending his system