Few inventions have been as simple yet liberating as Braille. To mark the 200th birthday of its inventor Louis Braille, former British home secretary David Blunkett explains how it shaped his life by ...

Louis Braille was born 200 years ago Sunday. Braille developed a reading and writing system for the blind that's based on various combinations of six raised dots. Communication for the blind wouldn't ...

Louis Braille was only 16 years old when he developed a sophisticated system of raised dots to allow the blind to read. Six dots on two parallel lines – Braille may seem like a simple invention, but ...

Braille was invented by a nineteenth century man named Louis Braille, who was completely blind. Braille’s story starts when he was three years old. He was playing in his father’s shop in Coupvray, ...

KALAMAZOO -- Scott Davert is like a lot of other students at Western Michigan University -- he can't live without his PDA. He uses his to download books, to listen to MP3s, to check his e-mail and ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. A boy in France created a way for blind people to read and write. The boy’s ...

Braille is a tactile system of reading and writing for the blind and visually impaired – not a language but an alphabet. The alphabet is formed by raised dots, which can be punched on paper or adhered ...

This charming coffee-table book is overstuffed with pictures, letters and every type of Louis Braille memorabilia imaginable. Unabashedly admiring, the author acknowledges his goal is not to write a " ...

AN POST has issued a new 55-cent stamp in Braille to commemorate the bicentenary of the birth in 1809 of Louis Braille, the inventor of the reading and writing system used by the blind and visually ...

Louis Braille, the inventor of system of reading and writing, presented a new world to the blind or visually impaired with his technique, simply known as braille. His birthday is celebrated as World ...