Louis Braille
Louis Braille was born near Paris, France. He was a very smart child. He liked to play with his father’s work tools. One day, when he was four, a sharp tool went into his left eye. An infection started and went to both eyes. He was unlucky. A few weeks later, Louis was blind.
At age ten, Louis went to a school for blind children in Paris. One day a French soldier, Charles Barbier, visited the school .Barbier invented a system of night-reading. This system used dots for the letters of the alphabet. Soldiers used this system in time of war .Babier thought this system could help blind people to read.
Barbier’s system was difficult, but it gave Louis an idea. He made barbier’s system easier. By age fifteen, his new system was ready! Now he wanted blind schools to use his system. He was unlucky again. The schools did not want his system. Louis died in 1852 at age forty-three. Two years after he died, the blind schools began to use his system.
Today we call this system Braille after Louis Braille. His system is used for all languages, and for math, science, writing music, and computer for the blind.
New words:
Tool: a thing that you hold in your hand and use to do a special job.
Sharp: with an edge point that cuts or makes holes easily.
Infection: a disease.
Blind: not able to see.
Unlucky: if you are unlucky, good things do not happen to you.
Invented: make or think of something for the first time.
Dots: a small round mark.
1 comment:
When he was four, he was blind, that was very bad for his self and his family. It just happened and nobody has fault, it was accidentally. Maybe Louis Braille’s destination is this? These accidents may contribute to our future or may rain our future .This accident could ruin Louis Braille’s future.
A bout system of night reading I should say it didn’t approve at first, but two years after Louis died the blind school began to use his system.
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