Louis Braille-Blind writing system development
Louis Braille-The development of the writing system for the blind
Louis Braille was born on January 4, 1809, and passed away on January 6, 1852, both in Coupvray, France, a suburb of Paris. The Braille writing system was created by a French teacher and is used by people who are blind.
At the age of three
Braille had a vision loss due to an accident he had while playing in his father’s shop, which specialised in the sale of equestrian equipment and horse breeding. Despite his disability, Braille picked up music and became a master organist. He then got a scholarship from the National Institute for Blind Children and attended the Institute in Paris in 1819 AD. After graduating, he started working there as a teacher in 1826 AD.
When Braille was fifteen years old, he worked on improving this method and utilising a basic tool. At the Institute, he was introduced to a book system created by Charles Barrier, where he encrypted the letters into dots. He created a comprehensive writing system and the appropriate symbols for musical notation. In 1829 A.D. he also wrote a piece about his writing process, and in 1837 A.D. he released a Braille edition of one of the well-known three-volume history textbooks.
Braille is a technique of writing and reading for the blind
that uses a code made up of 62 letters. These letters are printed on paper by cutting large holes in it, and the blind person then slides his hands over the paper to read. Each letter is made up of six dots grouped in a matrix or cell. The first person to use paper perforation as a method of reading for the blind was a Frenchman named Valentine Howe, but he used regular letters. William Moon from Brighton, England invented a writing system for the blind in 1845 AD called the Moon system, and he used the same regular letters, so learning this system was made easier by people who had lost their sight at a young age.
Charles Barbier
a French colonel who created the reading system utilising tactile dots to communicate with soldiers on the battlefield, taught Louis Braille how to do it. He termed it “writing at night.” But, Braille built on Barrier symbols to create the Barbier system, which is known as the cell system. Nevertheless, he only utilised 6 points instead of the usual 12. He originally published this method in 1829 AD, and it was fully published in 1837 AD.
Braille formed 63 letters out of the six dots that make up each cell, numbering each dot so that the cells to the left bear the numbers 1-2-3 from bottom to top and the cells to the right bear the numbers 4-5-6. The writing patterns employed by Braille for capital letters and italics are distinct from those used for tiny characters.
There are symbols for writing music, patterns for writing the most widespread languages in the world, and Braille has also been used to encode mathematical symbols.
The Louis Braille alphabet was written by hand on paper using a device
called the board, which had two metal sheets with holes shaped like cells as well as a wooden board as a base. Pressure was applied inside the plate with a pen to create holes in the paper, and the paper was then turned over after the writing was finished. highlighting the letters and reading from left to right
Frank H. Hall
a supervisor at the Illinois School for the Blind, created the first Braille printing machine in 1892 AD. This technology, which has undergone some modifications over the years, is still in use today, and Braille letters are being printed by computers.