Louis Braille
Digital Commonwealth — Perkins School for the Blind

Louis Braille

[ca. 1860–1947]

CC0 — Public Domain
Digital Commonwealth — Perkins School for the Blind

Photograph of a marble bust statue of Louis Braille (1809-1852), the inventor of the Braille reading and writing system for the blind. At three years he was blinded through an accident with a knife and later an infection in the other eye that left him totally blind.

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