1. Louis Braille was born in Coupvray, a small town in France, on January 4, 1809. He had a normal life until he was three years old, when he had his tragic and life-changing accident that left him completely blind. In spite of this, his parents wanted to raise him like other children (which was unusual for the blind at the time) and sent him to the 5. local school. Louis started taking matters into his own hands. He spent most of his life working hard on his studies, which all paid off. When he was ten he received a scholarship to the National Institute of Blind Youth. 

It was Charles Barbier, a captain in the French army, who gave Braille the idea for his famous alphabet. Barbier had invented a system of raised dots on the page so that his 10.soldiers could communicate silently at night without light. By the age of 15, Braille had adapted Barbier’s system into an alphabet that allowed blind people not only to read, but to write as well. He graduated and eventually became a much respected teacher, but his invention only became widely used after his death on January 6, 1852.

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