Light touch. Braille has been helping blind people read since 1824 Louis Braille, who had been blind since an accident when he was three, was just 15 when he adapted a complicated system of raised ...

He simplified it, and in 1824 the braille writing system was born. Teenagers continue to revolutionize the braille system. In 2014, 12-year-old Shubham Banerjee created a braille printer from a ...

Origins Louis Braille was a French teacher who created a touch-based system for reading and writing for the blind and visually impaired in 1824. The technique is known as braille and comprises ...