Louis Braille
Subtitle: a touch of genius
By: By C. Michael Mellor.
Publisher: National Braille Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Boston, Mass
Language: eng
Subjects: Braille, Louis, 1809-1852 -- Juvenile literature.; Blind teachers -- France -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Genres: Juvenile literature.; Biography
Description: Louis Braille: A Touch of Genius is the first ever, full-color biography to include thirty-one of his extant letters, some written by his own hand, and translated into English for the first time. Three great men were born in the early weeks of 1809: Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin, and Louis Braille. Only one has remained virtually unknown the man who invented a means of reading and writing still used today in almost every country in the world, adapted to almost every known language from Albanian to Zulu. Born sighted, Louis Braille accidentally blinded himself at the age of 3. He was lucky enough to be sent to a school for blind children in Paris, one of the first in the world. There, at the age of sixteen, he worked tirelessly on a revolutionary system of finger reading that became braille. He was a talented musician, astute businessman, and genius inventor collaborating with another Frenchman to invent the first dot-matrix printer around 1840.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Home; title: Coupvray; title: Valentin Haüy; title: School life; title: Braille code; title: Teacher; title: Music; title: Dot-matrix printing; title: Braille banned; title: Global braille; title: Epilogue.