What is Braille and who invented it?

Answer 1

Braille is a system of reading and writing that can be used by blind people, consisting of symbols created by arranging raised dots. Prior to the development of braille, blind people did not have an independent means of writing, and the only reading material that was available was in embossed print letters that were easy for sighted people to read, but slow and difficult for blind people to trace with their fingers. Although the braille writing system has changed since Louis Braille's original version, and there have been competing systems developed in the past, braille remains the primary tactile writing system worldwide and has been adapted for use in dozens of languages in addition to the original code developed for French.

Louis Braille was born on January 4, 1809 in the village of Coupvray, France. He was the son of a harness maker. He was not born blind, but suffered an accident while playing in his father's workshop at the age of 3. He poked himself in the eye with an awl, and the resulting infection destroyed his vision in that eye. He lost vision in his other eye because of a medical condition called sympathetic ophthalmia. At age 10 he was able to go to school at the National Institute for the Blind in Paris. Although it was considered the best school for the blind in the entire world at the time, the school was only able to afford 14 books. Living conditions at the school were harsh, with poor quality food and frequent beatings of the students.

In 1821, the school was visited by Charles Barbier, a Captain in the French Army. Barbier wished to share an invention of his, a system for soldiers to send silent messages at night that did not require light to be read. The symbols in the system were phonetic rather than representing print letters. Louis Braille was inspired by this invention, and developed the system of dots arranged on a two-by-three grid that we recognized today. It took him a few years to settle on a system that could be memorized easily, and was efficient to read and write. By 1824, the system was finalized, and the first book explaining the code was published in 1829 under the title "Method of Writing Words, Music, and Plain Songs by Means of Dots, for Use by the Blind and Arranged for Them."

Louis Braille's writing system was not immediately embraced. Sighted teachers resented having to learn a new reading system that was different from print letters. Philanthropists were outraged that the expensive raised print books they had given to the school would be rendered obsolete. Louis Braille taught at the school until his death from tuberculosis on January 6, 1852, but he was never able to formally teach his writing system to the students.

The school did not use the braille code until 1854. Louis Braille did not receive any awards or honors for his invention during his lifetime, but he has been honored posthumously with special issue stamps, coins, and the gratitude of the millions of blind people who have benefitted from his work. His body was moved to a place of honor in the Panthéon in Paris a century after he died.

Braille is a series of dots that are pushed out from a braille writer and onto a piece of special paper called braille paper, and each dot represents a certain letter on number, and signs for capitolization and etc. There are many signs in a lot of words, like tion, con, com, ant, or, etc., it is also for blind people (Go figure!)

Louis braille invented it. he invented it because his family and friends would tell him that he would never be able to read (because he was blind) and he told them that one day he would be able to..and then he invented braille and named it after his last name "braille". he became blind at the age of 3. because he was playing with his dad's tools and he cut himself in accident in his eye and he became blind.

Braille is a bunch of dots that blind people fit under there finger and can read

Braille is a dot pattern out of six dots blind people can run their fingers over to form letters.It started out as a milatary code. It was so that one solider could talk to another with out letting the other side know. This was soon after the discovery of braille by Louis Braille.

Louis Brail he invented it in January 4, 1809 - January 6, 1852.

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Have you ever seen a blind man reading something like raised dots on a paper? Well, that is braille. This is how blind people read and write.

Answer 2

Braille is a system of raised dots that can be read by touch for people who are visually impaired. It was invented by Louis Braille, a Frenchman who lost his sight as a child. Braille's system allowed blind individuals to read and write independently.

Answer 3

braille is for poeple who because they cant see, decide to feel up everything that has bumps