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Video #35
Episode Title: Names that became words: Braille

Can you read with your hands? Sounds impossible? Well, that is how blind people read. A feat that is possible because of an accident a three-year-old child had while playing in France, two centuries ago.

The child was Louis Braille. His father was a leather artisan. One day, Louis was playing in his father’s workshop when the accident happened. An accident that changed the world.

Discover the journey that little Louis went on from raised letters to a special script.

Learn what night writing is, how it helped during war and how it inspired Louis Braille.

Find out how he used the same thing that blinded him to create his special writing system.

Watch the video for the story of how a French surname, Braille, became the English word braille.

The most amazing part being that a mere schoolboy was responsible for this life-changing invention.

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