Louis Braille, the inventor of the braille code of reading and writing. Picture: Getty How does braille music notation work? Louis Braille adapted his tactile reading system for music and mathematics ...

In the mid-1800s, the invention of the Braille system radically changed the lives of millions of visually impaired people ...

Braille, however, modified the system to be suitable for the blind. He made each cell six dots instead of 12 so each combination could be read without moving the finger.

Braille was born about 20 miles east of Paris in Coupvray, France, on Jan. 4, 1809. As a boy of 3, Louis was playing at his father’s leather workbench with a sharp cobbler’s tool when he poked ...

Louis Braille, the inventor of the raised-dot system of writing used by blind people around the world, was born on January 4, 1809. Newsletters Games Share a News Tip. Featured. Featured.

By the age of 15, Louis Braille had transformed Barbier's cumbersome 12-dot system into a compact and efficient six-dot code. This new method allowed for 63 unique combinations of raised dots ...

Lucy Edmonds, a 1978 Western Michigan University graduate from Lansing, reads "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" in Braille during a party Thursday at WMU marking the 200th birthday of Louis ...

Louis Braille, who was born on 4 January 1809, invented a tactile reading and writing system that transformed the lives of countless people with severe vision impairments or blindness.

This Braille Literacy Month, Emily Kwong of NPR's Short Wave podcast reports on the writing system and how some researchers are working to lessen the national shortage of qualified braille educators.