Hello, I prepared a chronological sketch on history of education for the blind and on the life of Monsieur Louis Braille for an exhibition based on the article at www.brailler.com
I am pasting below for you. If you want to read Braille's biographies in braille, you can visit the web site of Blind Persons' Association at www.bpa.org.in They sell books at reasonable prices. Best regards, Amiyo. Cell: +91-9433464329 History of Education of the Sightless Date Event 1260 King Louis IX of France founded Quinze-Vingts, the first-ever formal institution for sightless people, providing 300 French knights whose eyes were put out as a punishment by the Saracens during the crusade 1745 Valentin Haüy, the founder of the first blind school, was born 1771 Haüy witnessed 8 sightless people from Quinze-Vingts performing a jocular dance at the St. Ovid's Fair in Paris and became convinced of their potentials 1784 Valentin Haüy founded the Royal Institution for Blind Children, the world's first blind school in Paris depending on books of raised letters on soaked paper The following blind schools were soon founded using many of Haüy's ideas and methods 1791 First blind school established in England at Liverpool 1804 First blind school established in Austria at Vienna 1806 First blind school established in Germany at Berlin 1808 Ironically, the first working print typewriter was devised in Italy to help a blind countess produce legible writing for sighted people 1822 Valentin Haüy died in Paris 1824 Louis Braille developed Braille system (named after him and used now all over the world) upon Charles Barbier's artillery code of dots and dashes using 6 dots 1837 The State of Ohio set up the first blind school in the USA 1841 A blind inventor, Pierre Foucault, invented a machine called a "piston board," to punch complete dot-drawn letters 1847 Pierre Foucault invented the "keyboard printer" (essentially, a typewriter) enabling blind people to write to sighted people in black type 1868 William Bell Wait introduced New York Point system, a variant of Braille, popularly used in America (later eclipsed by braille system) 1886 First institution for the sightless in India set up at Amritswar 1894 The setting up of Calcutta Blind School, the first of its kind in Eastern India, by Lal Bihari Shah 1916 Braille was adopted as the standard method of reading and writing for sightless people in the USA Louis Braille Date Event 1809Jan.4 Louis Braille, the inventor of Braille system, was born at Coupvray near Paris 1812 Louis injured his eye in an accident while playing with his father's tools 1819 Louis got admission in Haüy's school 1821 Louis saw the tactile artillery code of dots and dashes used for communication in the dark developed by Charles Barbier 1824 Louis developed Braille system upon Barbier's method using 6 dots 1829 Louis published Method of Writing Words, Music, and Plain Songs by Means of Dots, for Use by the Blind and Arranged for Them, his first complete book about his new system 1834 Demonstration of Braille's system in the International Paris Exposition of Industry 1837 The first braille book, a three-volume history of France, was published 1852Jan.6 Louis Braille died of tuberculosis 1854 France adopted Braille as its official communications system for blind people 1870 Acceptance of Braille system throughout Europe 1952 Louis's body was interred in the Pantheon on his death centenary following a huge public ceremony at the Sorbonne attended by dignitaries from all over the world including Helen Keller To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
