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Which eye did Louis Braille stab with an awl?
his left eye and he became blind by both of his eyes getting infected
How did Louis Braille injury happen?
he stabed his eye with an awl
What was Louis braille mom and dads name?
Louis Braille's dad was a saddle and harness maker in the village of Coupvray (in Paris) and Louis loved to watch him and that was the place where he first got blind from an accident with an awl ( one of his fathers tools that he wasn't supposed to touch) it punctured his eye and infected his other eye this could not be cured back then so he was blind when he was 4 years old hope that answers your question and i know all this because my class just finished reading Out of Darkness the story of Louis Braille.
What is Louis Braille's injury?
When Louis Braille was 3, he was playing with one of his father's tools called a Stitching awl. It was used to sew leather.http://wiki.answers.com/wiki/File:Sewing_awl.jpg
What did Louis Braille use to make the Braille method?
Louis Braille (as he was called) created a system where each letter of the alphabet was represented by a number of (maximum: 6) dots. For making those dots he originally used a stitching awl.
What happened to Louis Braille when he was three years old?
Yes. Louis Braille did become blind at the age of three, when he accidentally poked himself in the eye with a stitching awl. And because of sympathetic ophthalmia, he lost the sight of his other eye as well.
What was hard about creating Braille?
Braille is a system used by many blind people. When Louis was 3, he poked himself in the eye with an awl, then the infection spread to the other eye. He used the same object that made him blind to create the system as we know as " Braille."
Which eye from Louis Braille got infected first?
I don't think anyone knows which eye it was, i can't find the exact answer. but i do know that it was the eye that was hit with the awl.
How did Louis Braille lose his sight?
At three years old, Louis was playing in his father's tack shop. While pushing an awl through a scrap of leather close to his face, he punctured one of his eyes. Although he was treated by a physician, the eye became infected, the infection passed to his other eye, and Louis lost his sight.
How did Louis lose his eyesight?
Louis Braille lost his eyesight when he stuck an awl into his eye accidentally as a child. He then had an infection in one eye that spread to the other and left both eyes blind.
Why is Louis Braille famous?
Louis Braille went to the Nation Institute for the Blind in Paris. They taught children to read by feeling raised letters. The institute had a limited amount of books on this system of writing and Braille read them all. However, he had no way of writing and would later create a system composed of six raised dots to allow him to communicate better. In 1821, Louis Braille was inspired by former French Army captain, Charles Barbier de la Serre. Serre visited Braille's school to show his invention of sonography, which was a form of night writing. This invention was based off a series of 12 raised dots and numbers, which allowed top-secret information to be transferred between soldiers on the battlefield, without talking. Braille was also inspired by a six sided dice and used a stitching awl and created a system composed of a similar method of raised dots. His method of language was a six dot system.
How did Louis Braille go blind?
Louis Braille became blind at the age of three. He was playing with an awl in his fathers workshop, and it slipped out of his hands, it hit him in the eye. They thought it wasn't serious at first, but then it became infected. Answer 2: Louis Braille was born in 1809 in the village of Coupvray in France, about 25 miles [40 km] from Paris. His father, Simon-René Braille, made a living as a harness maker. Perhaps young Louis often played in his father's workshop. On one occasion, however, it was the setting for a terrible accident. Gripping a sharp pointed tool-possibly an awl-Louis inadvertently plunged it into his eye. The damage was irreversible. Worse still, the infection soon spread to his other eye. At the tender age of three, Louis became totally blind. Trying to make the best of the situation, Louis' parents and the parish priest, Jacques Palluy, arranged for Louis to sit in on classes held at the local school. Louis absorbed much of what he heard. In fact, some years he was at the head of his class! But there were limits to what a blind person could learn using methods that were designed for the sighted. Hence, in 1819, Louis was enrolled in the Royal Institute for Blind Youth. The founder of the institute, Valentin Haüy, was one of the first to establish a program to help the blind to read. His desire was to combat the prevailing notion that blindness precluded a person from the benefits of a formal education. Haüy's early experiments involved embossing large raised letters on thick paper. Although crude, these efforts planted seeds that would later take root. Braille learned how to read the large embossed letters in the books of Haüy's small library. He realized, however, that this approach to learning was slow and impractical. After all, letters were designed for the eyes-not the fingers. Fortunately, someone else who recognized these limitations was about to appear on the scene. In 1821, when Louis Braille was just 12 years old, Charles Barbier, a retired French artillery captain, visited the institute. There he presented a means of communication called night writing, later called sonography. Night writing was developed for use on the battlefield. It was a tactile method of communication, using raised dots arranged in rectangular form six dots high by two dots wide. This concept of using a code to represent words phonetically struck a responsive chord at the school. Braille enthusiastically applied himself to this new approach and even made improvements to it. But to make the system truly practical, Braille had to persevere. He wrote in his diary: "If my eyes will not tell me about men and events, ideas and doctrines, I must find another way." So for the next two years, Braille worked doggedly to simplify the code. Finally, he developed a refined and elegant method based on a cell only three dots high by two dots wide. In 1824, at the age of 15, Louis Braille completed a six-dot cell system. Soon thereafter, Braille began teaching at the institute, and in 1829 he published his unique method of communication known today by his name. Except for minor refinements, his system remains essentially unchanged to this day. Making Braille Available Worldwide The late 1820's saw the publication of the first book that explained Braille's raised-dot invention; but the invention was slow to gain wide acceptance. Even at the institute, the new code was not officially adopted until 1854-two years after Braille's death. Nevertheless, this vastly superior method eventually gained popularity. Several organizations have produced Braille literature. The Watchtower Society began making such material available in 1912, when the code was still being standardized for the English-speaking world. Today, using advanced Braille printing methods, the Society embosses millions of pages each year in eight languages and distributes these to over 70 countries. Recently, the Society doubled its production capacity to meet the growing demand for Braille Bible literature. Today the simple, well-crafted Braille code makes the written word available to millions who are visually impaired-thanks to the dedicated efforts of a young boy almost 200 years ago. See Awake article Louise Braille-Bringing Light to Prisoners of Darkness in Jehovah's Witnesses official website
