Reading by touch
Subtitle: trials, battles, and discoveries
By: by Pamela Lorimer
Publisher: National Federation of the Blind
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 96
Copyright date: 2000
Subjects: Blind; Printing and writing systems; History; Braille; Development; Books and reading
Notes: Printed in large type, two columns per page.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 90-95).
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Slow beginnings; title: France: Valentin Haüy (1745-1822); title: France: Louis Braille (1809-1852); title: Britain: institutions; title: Britain: codes and chaos (1818-1870); title: Britain: progress towards uniformity; title: North America: institutions, codes and world Braille; title: The Braille code: past, present, and future; title: References.