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Who invented the Braille alphabet
The Braille alphabet is the international system used by blind people for reading and writing. It consists of 63 characters, which are made of various combinations of one to six raised dots. In addition to letters, the dot patterns correspond to punctuation marks and common words such as "and" and "the."
The Braille alphabet was developed by Louis Braille (1809-1852), then a 15-year-old student at the National Institute for Blind Children in Paris, France. Braille, who had been blind since the age of three, took the inspiration for his alphabet from a communication method called night-writing, which the French army had developed for coding messages at night on the battlefield. With the assistance of an army officer, Charles Barbier, Braille pared the method's 12-dot configurations to a 6-dot system and devised a code of 63 characters.
The Braille alphabet was not widely...
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