Louis Braille Bicentennial
January 4, 2009, is the 200th anniversary of Louis Braille's birth. Braille was the Frenchman who invented the raised dot code that bears his name, making it possible for blind and visually impaired people to read and write the same books and correspondence as their sighted counterparts. To commemorate the Louis Braille Bicentennial, AFB created an online gallery that includes pictures of Louis Braille, digitized books, articles, and more. AFB's Bicentennial page also showcases one of the first books printed in braille that was embossed in Paris in 1837, and one of only three copies in the world. Visitors to the gallery can also access digitized copies of "The War of the Dots," a chapter from Robert Irwin's As I Saw It, and The Reading Fingers by Jean Roblin.
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