From the Pen of the Editor

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  • Ralph L Scott ECU

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3776/ncl.v66i3.256

Abstract

January 4th 2009 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Louis Braille. Braille became blind in one eye at the age of four while working at his father’s shop. Braille was sent to the Royal Institute for the Blind in Paris for his studies.In 1821 an officer in the French Army, Charles Barbier, shared with Braille a secret “night writing” code system the army had devised for communicating in the dark at night without speaking. It was this series of raised dots that Braille at the age of fifteen in 1824, that he turned into the now famous system of writing and reading. Braille taught his system at the Institute until his death from tuberculosis at the age of forty-three in 1852.

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2009-01-30

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