What were Louis Braille's achievements?

Answer 1

At three years of age, an accident deprived Louis Braille of his sight, and in1819 young Louis was sent to a Blind School in Paris for his education. Wanting desperately to read, he realised he needed to find a way to unlock the dark world he and others found themselves in. He needed to help find a meaningful way to join in ideas with others.

Louis Braille hit on the idea of a set of codes in the form of dot patterns representing the alphabet, punctuation marks and other symbols, which could easily transpose into different languages.

Eventually, the world wide system of embossed type used by blind and partially sighted people for reading and writing came into being, and was eventually adapted to almost every known language.

Do you know, that Japan are the only country in the world that use embossed Braille on all its tins of food and in particular, cans of soda and alcohol so that blind people do not mistake one for the other. This is particularly important where children and the elderly are concerned.

I hope my little precis goes some way to answering your question.

Answer 2

At three years of age, an accident deprived Louis Braille of his sight, and in1819 young Louis was sent to a Blind School in Paris for his education. Wanting desperately to read, he realised he needed to find a way to unlock the dark world he and others found themselves in. He needed to help find a meaningful way to join in ideas with others.

Louis Braille hit on the idea of a set of codes in the form of dot patterns representing the alphabet, punctuation marks and other symbols, which could easily transpose into different languages.

Eventually, the world wide system of embossed type used by blind and partially sighted people for reading and writing came into being, and was eventually adapted to almost every known language.

Do you know, that Japan are the only country in the world that use embossed Braille on all its tins of food and in particular, cans of soda and alcohol so that blind people do not mistake one for the other. This is particularly important where children and the elderly are concerned.

I hope my little precis goes some way to answering your question.