Louis Braille, Frenchman, was a three year old boy when he went blind. At the age of ten he was put in an institution where he taught himself music.
In his adulthood he became an organist in Paris. This led him to devise his now famous system of raised point lettering to enable the blind to read. He became a teacher at the blind institution in 1828.
Today Braille is still widely used, although there are also several additional electronic systems to help the blind read.
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