The Resource Louis Braille : a touch of genius, by C. Michael Mellor

Louis Braille : a touch of genius, by C. Michael Mellor

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
Creator
Subject
Genre
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
  • 686.2/82092
  • B
Illustrations
  • 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
  • Braille, Louis
  • Blind teachers
Label
Louis Braille : a touch of genius, by C. Michael Mellor
Link
http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip062/2005029150.html
Instantiates
Publication
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
Label
Louis Braille : a touch of genius, by C. Michael Mellor
Link
http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip062/2005029150.html
Publication
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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