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Louis Braille

  • birth

    birth

  • accident

  • Paris to attend the National Institute for Blind Children

  • When he was 15, he worked out an adaptation, written with a simple instrument, that met the needs of the sightless

  • he taught in the Institute

  • in 1837 he published a three-volume Braille edition of a popular history schoolbook

  • Death January 6, 1852

  • Period: to

    Braille code

    The blind have been using the Braille code ever since.

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