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Braille: Fifteen-year-old blind inventor revolutionizes reading for the sightless.
Who Was Louis Braille?
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112 pages
- Release Date
13 March 2014
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Summary
Blind from the age of three, Louis Braille was determined to find a way for blind people to read. At only fifteen years old, he invented a revolutionary reading system that used raised dots to represent letters and numbers. This ingenious method allowed the sightless to access the world of books and information through touch, and it remains the standard for braille reading today, nearly two hundred years after its creation.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780448479033 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0448479036 |
| Author: | Margaret Frith, Robert Squier, Who HQ |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | G P Putnam's Sons |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 13 March 2014 |
| Weight: | 119g |
| Dimensions: | 7mm x 135mm x 194mm |
| Series: | Who Was? |
| Audience Age: | 8-12 |
A-Format111 × 178 mm
135 × 194 mm
B-Format130 × 198 mm
C-Format153 × 234 mm
A4210 × 297 mm
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About The Author
Margaret Frith
Margaret Frith is the author of Who Was Thomas Alva Edison? and Who Was Franklin Roosevelt? She lives in New York City.
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