Who invented the alphabet for the blind?

The inventor of the reading system for blind Louis Braille (1809-1852) remained blind at the age of 3 as a result of an accident that damaged one eye while playing in his father's workshop. His wound was infected and he lost sight of the eye. The infection also touched the healthy eye, and in very little time the child remained totally blind.

At the age of 10, Braille entered the institute for blind young people in Paris. Here they learned to play musical instruments and to learn skills that required manual skills. They also learned to read through a tiresome procedure consisting of the touch of ordinary letters printed in elevated reliefs.

From Braille's entry, he showed skills in such areas as grammar, rhetoric, history, geometry, algebra, and, above all, music - in theory and practice - he learned to play in organo, cello, and piano. Later, he met a chief of art, Charles Barbier, a soldier who had come up with a code for writing at night based on a reading system for soldiers to send messages into the dark. Barbier soon realized that his system could be useful to people with visual limitations, and in 1821 he made it available to the insitor of the blind.

However, the results were not very satisfying because the writing was not alphabetic, but the fossilism and the signs were not easy to read. Louis thought of a communication for the blind and created a simpler version based on dots for finger touching. In 1825 Braille, who was distinguished as a fine student, began to create a laid - out but simpler and complete reading system. It would thus facilitate blind people's reading and writing, as well as an access to education, culture and information.

In 1828, when his system was still complete. Louis Braille was appointed professor in the Institute of the blind, the task he accomplished with great skill and gained the respect of the students. In 1829, he published a printed volume in the common letter linear, which became known, and in 1837 presented a second and corrected publication.

Braille's health had deteriorated, and very soon he was forced to abandon teaching by being limited to teaching music. Louis Braille died on January 6, 1852. Today, the Breil system has adapted to all its languages and inventors now resides in the Pantheon of the Heroes of France. /The world.al