Louis Braille (/breɪl/ brayl; French: [lwi bʁɑj]; 4 January 1809 – 6 January 1852) was a French educator and the inventor of a reading and writing system...
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electronic braille notetaker or with the use of a computer connected to a braille embosser. Braille is named after its creator, Louis Braille, a Frenchman...
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in 1992, by astronomers at Palomar Observatory and later named after Louis Braille, the inventor of the writing system for the blind. It was photographed...
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system was incepted by Louis Braille. Braille music uses the same six-position braille cell as literary braille. However braille music assigns its own...
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Brailler, writing braille was a cumbersome process. Braille writers created braille characters with a stylus and slate (as developed by Louis Braille)...
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Night writing (section Influence on Braille)
(Royal Institution for Blind Youth) in Paris. A student at the school, Louis Braille, used the tools and Barbier's idea of communicating with raised dots...
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November 2018, and marks the birthday of Louis Braille, creator of this writing system. The first World Braille Day was celebrated on January 4, 2019. "Resolution...
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portraying Wylan Hendriks. In 2017, Wolfe played the lead role as Louis Braille in The Braille Legacy at the Charing Cross Theatre in Westminster, London. In...
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up Braille, braille, or braillé in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Braille is a system of writing for blind people. Braille may also refer to: Louis Braille...
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Blindness and education (section Braille system)
educate students and teach them manual work: spinning, and letterpress. Louis Braille attended Haüy's school in 1819 and later taught there. He soon became...
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French Braille is the original braille alphabet, and the basis of almost all others. The alphabetic order of French has become the basis of the international...
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Unified English Braille Code (UEBC, formerly UBC, now usually simply UEB) is an English language Braille code standard, developed to encompass the wide...
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Aveugles, or the National Institute for the Young Blind, INJA). In 1819, Louis Braille entered this school. Haüy was born into a family of weavers. His father...
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The goal of braille uniformity is to unify the braille alphabets of the world as much as possible, so that literacy in one braille alphabet readily transfers...
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Braille ASCII (or more formally The North American Braille ASCII Code, also known as SimBraille) is a subset of the ASCII character set which uses 64...
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letters the same as Louis Braille's original assignments for French Braille. Slovak Braille is as follows: That is, it is Czech Braille with the following...
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1465 Louis Eugene, Duke of Württemberg Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt Louis Blériot (1872–1936), French aviator and inventor Louis Braille (1809–1852)...
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assigns the 25 basic Latin letters (not including "W") the same as Louis Braille's original assignments for French. With the exception of w, Czech follows...
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below, inscriptions in braille (a writing system whose development has been credited to French educator and inventor Louis Braille), and line patterns that...
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boarding school at Lawrence School, Lovedale. He is a recipient of the Louis Braille Award from the Pennsylvania Council for the Blind, for the year 2017...
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Panthéon (category Louis XV)
Free France and colonial administrator Félix Éboué; and Louis Braille, inventor of the Braille writing system, in 1952. Under the Fifth Republic of President...
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both Barbier and Braille were dead, Alexandre-René Pignier wrote a short biography of Louis Braille. In it, he suggested that Braille, at a very young...
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The Louis Braille Bicentennial silver dollar is a commemorative coin issued by the United States Mint in 2009. The Louis Braille Bicentennial-Braille Literacy...
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Japanese Braille is the braille script of the Japanese language. It is based on the original braille script, though the connection is tenuous. In Japanese...
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the Bombay Sappers being triangular. Recently the 2009 stamp on Louis Braille had braille imprinting on it in addition. Many cases of overprinting exist...
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Louis Braille's original publication, Procedure for Writing Words, Music, and Plainsong in Dots (1829), credits Barbier's night writing as being the basis...
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Decapoint (category Braille)
or raphigraphy, was a tactile form of the Latin script invented by Louis Braille as a system that could be used by both the blind and sighted. It was...
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eventually became the official name of the tribe. When he was a child, Louis Braille gouged his eye with an awl by accident. One eye was destroyed instantly...
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Binary code (section Braille)
false test. Braille is a type of binary code that is widely used by the blind to read and write by touch, named for its creator, Louis Braille. This system...
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conjunctiva were the treatments of choice for SO. It is thought that Louis Braille, who injured one of his eyes as a child, lost vision in his other eye...
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