4 January 1809Louis Braille was born in the small town ofCoupvray, in France.Though he was blind while still a child, hisdetermination ensured that by 1833 he wasprosessor at the National Instre for Blind Youth in Paris. Braille then developed a new reading
and writing system for the sightless. By 1932,there was a universal Braille code for English
