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Birthplace of Louis Braille in Coupvray. Louis Braille was born in Coupvray, a small town about twenty miles east of Paris, on 4 January 1809. [2] He and his three elder siblings – Monique Catherine (b. 1793), Louis-Simon (b. 1795), and Marie Céline (b. 1797) [3] – lived with their parents, Simon-René and Monique, on three hectares of land and vineyard in the countryside.
Maurice de La Sizeranne (French pronunciation: [mɔʁis də la sizʁan]; 1857–1924), blinded at age 9, was an important figure in the movement to support the blind.. He was born in Tain, a small village in la Drôme, on the left bank of the River Rhône, on 30 July 1857.
When he was a child, Louis Braille gouged his eye with an awl by accident. One eye was destroyed instantly, and a subsequent infection later claimed the other eye, making him blind by the time he was four. The accident spurred Braille to the invention of the Braille alphabet, the prototype of which was created using an awl. [3]
Gustaf Dalén – Swedish inventor and Nobel Prize winner, who continued to make inventions and lead his company after being blinded in an accident. [100] Wanda Díaz-Merced – American astrophysicist. [101] Victor Eberhard — German geometer [102] Leonhard Euler – Swiss mathematician and physicist who went almost totally blind at fifty ...
Braille is named after its creator, Louis Braille, a Frenchman who lost his sight as a result of a childhood accident. In 1824, at the age of fifteen, he developed the braille code based on the French alphabet as an improvement on night writing .
A man drove his car through a restaurant patio where a group of medical workers were celebrating in a Minneapolis suburb on Sunday, killing two people and injuring at least four, police and ...
A worker was injured in an accident that happened near the south leg of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. ... Electrical Worker Shocked in Accident at St. Louis Arch. KTVI - St. Louis.
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