Boy Loses Vision, Creates Braille
Many people may not know that braille was introduced as a form of communication for the blind by a child. Louis Braille was just three years old when he suffered an eye injury. The infection as so bad that eventually blinded him. Still attempting to read, the young boy would trace his finger over raised letters. Then he learned that France’s military had a form of silent communication they called “night writing” where soldiers traced their fingers over the code to read a message. He simplified it to work for the American alphabet and the braille language was created.
