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Louis Braille was a blind man. He could play piano when he was three. When he got older, he realized that he was gifted, but he wanted all blind people to be able to play music, read, and write.

Louis Braille invented the Braille system in 1824 to enable the blind to read by using a combination of 6 raised dots for each letter or number. These could be read by the blind with their fingertips. Braille's system was based on an idea of Charles Barbier, a French army officer, who used a combination of 12 dots pressed into paper for each number or letter in military communications that could be read in the dark of night.

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