Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille
A biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who, having been blinded himself at the age of three, went on to develop a system of raised dots on paper that enabled blind people to read and write.
A biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who, having been blinded himself at the age of three, went on to develop a system of raised dots on paper that enabled blind people to read and write.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780547346281 (054734628X)
Publish date: September 20th 1999
Publisher: Clarion Books
Pages no: 96
Edition language: English
Basic Life Story of Louis Braille - inventor of the Braille system for the blind. Braille was born in a small village in France in 1809 and blinded at 4 from an accident in his father's shop. He later went on to be a student at a school for the blind in Paris, which exposed him to the things neces...