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Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip)
Historical biography, Science and medicine biography, United States history
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
Louis Braille certainly wasn't your average teenager. Blind from the age of four, he was only fifteen when in 1824…
he invented a reading system that converted printed words into columns of raised dots. Through touch, Braille opened the world of books to the sightless, and almost two hundred years later, no one has ever improved upon his simple, brilliant idea.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip)
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
An inspiring look at a child inventor whose drive and intelligence changed to world-for the blind and sighted alike - The story of young Louis Braille
DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Biography
Human-narrated audio
A biography, written by an Australian, Lennard Bickel, this book sets the life and achievements of Louis Braille in the…
setting of the political and social life of France at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Commencing with the foundation of the Royal Institute for the Young Blind in Paris (1786), it describes the constant battle to improve conditions for the blind, Braille's encouragement by Dr. Pignier (Director of the Institute) against opposition for the use of a "special alphabet" for the blind, and the gradual acceptance of the 'six-dot-system" which came only after Braille's tragic death at the age of forty-three.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip)
Historical biography, General non-fiction
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
In the late 1700s, young Louis Braille overcame his disability by inventing "night writing," a system of raised dots to…
help blind people read. This alphabet of raised dots allowed sightless people to live more independent lives.
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip)
Biography, Historical biography
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
a children's book about Louis Braille
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip)
Biography, Historical biography
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
Although this is a children's book, it is written in a style that will appeal to adults, as well. It…
is an interesting and very informative biography of Louis Braille, and includes a bibliography for further reading.