When Louis Braille invented it, it was produced with a needle holing successively all needed points in a cardboard sheet.

In 1892, Frank Haven Hall, superintendent of the Illinois Institute for the for the Education of the Blind, created the Hall Braille Writer, which was like a typewriter with 6 keys, one for each dot in a braille cell.

* The Braille system was the first binary format for character encoding, using a six-bit code rendered as dot patterns.

Launched on 24 October 1998, the Deep Space mission carried out a flyby of asteroid 9969 Braille, which was selected as the mission's science target.

The flyby of the asteroid 9969 Braille was only a partial success.

Louis Braille (, ; 4 January 1809 – 6 January 1852 ) was the inventor of braille, a system of reading and writing used by people who are blind or visually impaired.

As a small child, Braille was blinded in an accident ; as a boy he developed a mastery over that blindness ; and as a young man – still a student at school – he created a revolutionary form of communication that transcended blindness and transformed the lives of millions.

Braille survived the torment of the infection but by the age of five he was completely blind in both eyes.

Because of his combination of intelligence and diligence, Braille was permitted to attend one of the first schools for blind children in the world, the National Institute for Blind Youth in Paris.

Braille was helped by the Haüy books, but he also despaired over their lack of depth: the amount of information kept in such books was necessarily small.

Braille read the Haüy books repeatedly, and he was equally attentive to the oral instruction offered by the school.

Braille was determined to fashion a system of reading and writing that could bridge the critical gap in communication between the sighted and the blind.

Braille worked tirelessly on his ideas, and his system was largely completed by 1824, when he was just fifteen years of age.

Although Braille was admired and respected by his pupils, his writing system was not taught at the Institute during his lifetime.

A large monument to him was erected in the town square which was itself renamed Braille Square.

According to official statistics from departments associated with the PLA General Political Department, from 1964 to 1976, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung was published in 4 Chinese editions, 8 Chinese minority languages in 8 versions, one Braille edition, 37 foreign language version and a bilingual Chinese-English version ( total 38 foreign versions ), with a total printing of 1, 055, 498, 000 copies.

His father was Richard Lightman, a movie theater owner, and his mother, Jeanne Garretson, a dancing teacher and volunteer Braille typist.

The 2010 Manchester University team included a visually impaired student, and the picture rounds in episodes involving the team were word puzzles for which she was provided with Braille transcriptions.

Dionne Quan was the voice of Kimi Finster, however as she is legally blind, in order to do the voice, the producers had to interpret the scripts into Braille, so she could read them by sensing the bumps with her fingers.

Dr. Howe himself was the originator of many improvements in method as well as in the process of printing books in Braille.

* January 6-Louis Braille ( born 1809 ), French inventor.

Birthplace of Louis Braille in Coupvray

Braille studied in Coupvray until the age of ten.

Braille's childhood home in Coupvray is a listed historic building and houses the Louis Braille Museum.

Currently the only known winemaker who has taken the initiative to print all their labels in Braille is Chapoutier winery in France, who began the practice in 1996.

Braille characters are small rectangular blocks called cells that contain tiny palpable bumps called raised dots.

9969 Braille is a small Mars-crossing asteroid that orbits the Sun once every 3. 58 years.

No lone asteroid as small as Braille had previously been observed from such a short distance.

Ethel Austin's earliest proposals of 1911 for the amalgamation of small libraries for the blind into one centralised system proved abortive, but by 1917, the Braille collections of the Home Teaching Society, the Girls Friendly Society and the Catholic Trust Society had been taken over.

The five units of the Central Library — Mid-Manhattan Library, Donnell Library Center, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library and the Science, Industry and Business Library — are all located in Manhattan.

* Perkins Braille and Talking Book Library is located on the campus of the Perkins School for the Blind.

The largest collection of Braille musical scores is located at the Library of Congress in Washington D. C .. Outside the U. S., the largest collection of braille music scores is stored at the National Library for the Blind in England.

Three years ago it became possible to finance a Braille edition for blind readers.

Examples of assistive technology for visually impairment include the Canadian currency tactile feature, which a system of raised dots in one corner, based on Braille cells but not standard Braille.

For general computer use access technology such as screen readers, screen magnifiers and refreshable Braille displays has been widely taken up along with standalone reading aids that integrate a scanner, optical character recognition ( OCR ) software, and speech software in a single machine.

While most alphabets have letters composed of lines ( linear writing ), there are also exceptions such as the alphabets used in Braille, fingerspelling, and Morse code.

Braille is a tactile writing system used by the blind and the visually impaired, and found in books, on menus, signs, elevator buttons, and currency.

Braille is named after its creator, Frenchman Louis Braille, who went blind following a childhood accident.

At the age of 15, Braille developed his code for the French alphabet in 1824 as an improvement on night writing.

Furthermore, in English Braille there are three levels of encoding: Grade 1, a letter-by-letter transcription used for basic literacy ; Grade 2, an addition of abbreviations and contractions ; and Grade 3, various non-standardized personal shorthands.

Braille education remains important for developing reading skills among blind and visually impaired children as braille literacy correlates with higher employment rates.

Braille embossers usually need special braille paper which is thicker and more expensive than normal paper.

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities also defines the communication to include the display of text, Braille, tactile communication, large print, accessible multimedia, as well as written and plain language, human-reader, augmentative and alternative modes, means and formats of communication, including accessible information and communication technology.

Braille ( a writing system for the blind ) uses either 6 or 8 tactile ' points ' from which all letters and numbers are formed.

Braille, like Baudot, uses a number symbol and a shift symbol, which may be repeated for shift lock, to fit numbers and upper case into the 31 codes that 6 bits offer.

Braille comes closest, as it has been extended to eight bits.

The question-and-answer method of commentary began there, and 15 centuries before Braille, wood-carving techniques were in use there by blind scholars to read and write.

Full-time employment is also available in catering, farming, gardening, laundry, textiles, Braille, contract services, furniture manufacturing and polishing.

Due to technical difficulties, including a software crash shortly before approach, the craft instead passed Braille at a distance of.