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The Resource Louis Braille : a touch of genius, by C. Michael Mellor
Louis Braille : a touch of genius, by C. Michael Mellor
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The item Louis Braille : a touch of genius, by C. Michael Mellor represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sno-Isle Libraries.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
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The item Louis Braille : a touch of genius, by C. Michael Mellor represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sno-Isle Libraries.
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- Summary
- Louis Braille: A Touch of Genius is the first ever, full-color biography to include thirty-one of his extant letters, some written by his own hand, and translated into English for the first time. Three great men were born in the early weeks of 1809: Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin, and Louis Braille. Only one has remained virtually unknown the man who invented a means of reading and writing still used today in almost every country in the world, adapted to almost every known language from Albanian to Zulu. Born sighted, Louis Braille accidentally blinded himself at the age of 3. He was lucky enough to be sent to a school for blind children in Paris, one of the first in the world. There, at the age of sixteen, he worked tirelessly on a revolutionary system of finger reading that became braille. He was a talented musician, astute businessman, and genius inventor collaborating with another Frenchman to invent the first dot-matrix printer around 1840
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xi, 133 p.
- Contents
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- Home
- Coupvray
- Valentin Haüy
- School life
- Braille code
- Teacher
- Music
- Dot-matrix printing
- Braille banned
- Global braille
- Epilogue
- Isbn
- 9780939173709
- Label
- Louis Braille : a touch of genius
- Title
- Louis Braille
- Title remainder
- a touch of genius
- Statement of responsibility
- by C. Michael Mellor
- Title variation
- Touch of genius
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Louis Braille: A Touch of Genius is the first ever, full-color biography to include thirty-one of his extant letters, some written by his own hand, and translated into English for the first time. Three great men were born in the early weeks of 1809: Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin, and Louis Braille. Only one has remained virtually unknown the man who invented a means of reading and writing still used today in almost every country in the world, adapted to almost every known language from Albanian to Zulu. Born sighted, Louis Braille accidentally blinded himself at the age of 3. He was lucky enough to be sent to a school for blind children in Paris, one of the first in the world. There, at the age of sixteen, he worked tirelessly on a revolutionary system of finger reading that became braille. He was a talented musician, astute businessman, and genius inventor collaborating with another Frenchman to invent the first dot-matrix printer around 1840
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Mellor, C. Michael
- Dewey number
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- 686.2/82092
- B
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- facsimiles
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HV1624.B65
- LC item number
- M45 2006
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- NLM call number
- WZ 100
- NLM item number
- B814M 2006
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Braille, Louis
- Blind teachers
- Label
- Louis Braille : a touch of genius, by C. Michael Mellor
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-130) and index
- Contents
- Home -- Coupvray -- Valentin Haüy -- School life -- Braille code -- Teacher -- Music -- Dot-matrix printing -- Braille banned -- Global braille -- Epilogue
- Dimensions
- 24 x 29 cm.
- Extent
- xi, 133 p.
- Isbn
- 9780939173709
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2005029150
- Other physical details
- ill. (some col.), col. map, facsims.
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)62133676
- 592251
- (OCoLC)ocm62133676
- 592251
- Label
- Louis Braille : a touch of genius, by C. Michael Mellor
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-130) and index
- Contents
- Home -- Coupvray -- Valentin Haüy -- School life -- Braille code -- Teacher -- Music -- Dot-matrix printing -- Braille banned -- Global braille -- Epilogue
- Dimensions
- 24 x 29 cm.
- Extent
- xi, 133 p.
- Isbn
- 9780939173709
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2005029150
- Other physical details
- ill. (some col.), col. map, facsims.
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)62133676
- 592251
- (OCoLC)ocm62133676
- 592251
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