Who was Louis Braille?

Louis Braille certainly wasn't your average teenager. Blind from the age of four, he was only fifteen when in 1824 he invented a reading system that converted printed words into columns of raised dots. Through touch, Braille opened the world of books to the sightless, and almost two hundred years la...

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Main Author: Frith, Margaret
Other Authors: Squier, Robert (Illustrator)
Format: Downloads eBook Books eBook
Language:English
Published: 2014.
Series:Who Was...?.
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