Louis Braille : a touch of genius

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Label

Louis Braille : a touch of genius

Title remainder

a touch of genius

Statement of responsibility

by C. Michael Mellor

Title variation

Touch of genius

Creator

• Mellor, C. Michael

Subject

• Blind teachers -- France -- Biography
• Braille, Louis, 1809-1852

Genre

• Biography

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

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