Louis
Braille was a genius blind man
who gave rays of light to the blind people across the world. He
invented the
Braille system of reading for the blind and opened the horizon of the
colorful
world to the blind people. He enabled them to enter the world of
knowledge.
Louis
Braille was born in
France in
1809. He was a son of saddle maker. When he was a child of 3 years, a
tragedy
struck him. Once he was playing with a tool used to stitch leather. He
stumbled
and fell and the tool pierced his eye. Thus he lost one eye in the
accident.
His second eye was also blinded at the age of five. His father got him
admitted
to a school for blind at the age of ten. During his school days, a
retired
soldier taught him to read books with the help of embossed dots.
Louis
desire was to unleash the world of books to the blind people who were
lonely.
So he spent his time trying to devise a code with symbols for words.
One day,
he heard about an army officer who had developed a system of writing in
raised
dots and dashes to be used in the darkness. The army message could be
read by
touching even in the dark. Louis was inspired by this system to develop
a
reading system and open up the world of knowledge for the blind. He
made
impressions of words and punched them on the thick paper so that they
could be
felt with fingers and read.