Oh well it is getting nearer and nearer the end of this particular set of holidays but the good news is it wont be long before the next one comes along.Louis Braille, the inventor of braille a worldwide system used by blind and visually impaired people for reading and writing, was born today in 1809.
In 1821, Charles Barbier, a Captain in the French Army, visited Louis' school. Barbier shared his invention called 'night writing' a code of 12 raised dots and a number of dashes that let soldiers share top-secret information on the battlefield without having to speak. The code was too difficult for Louis to understand and he later changed the number of raised dots to 6 to form what we today call Braille.
