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Louis Braille

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Name: Louis Braille

First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 1 reports

Mountain climber aims high despite blindness

NEWMARKET ? If a blind person boards a bus and asks if someone is sitting in your seat, you'd better answer ? or else you might end up with him sitting in your lap.That's just one of the stories that Randy Pierce, a blind hiker who's scaled all 48 of ... [Published Exeter NewsLetter - May 07 2013]

Entities: Randy Pierce, Louis Braille, Mary Kelly, Labrador Retriever, MONADNOCK

First reported Apr 27 2013 - Updated Apr 27 2013 - 1 reports

White Print eyes an untouched reader segment

There are about 12 million visually impaired people in India, and nearly half of them are literate. Increasingly, with the government and even the private sector encouraging the visually impaired to join the mainstream, many are getting into senior positions, ... [Published Khaleej Times - Apr 27 2013]

Entities: Louis Braille, India, Mumbai

First reported Jan 30 2013 - Updated Jan 31 2013 - 1 reports

Google Inc

Google Science Fair: Looking for the next generation of scientists and engineers to change the world

At age 16, Louis Braille invented an alphabet for the blind. When she was 13, Ada Lovelace became fascinated with math and went on to write the first computer program. And at 19, Alexander Graham Bell started experimenting with sound and went on ... [Published The Official Google Blog - Jan 30 2013]

Entities: Google Inc, Scientific American, CERN

First reported Jan 24 2013 - Updated Jan 24 2013 - 1 reports

Celebrate National Braille Literacy Month with a Geeky T-Shirt in...

January is National Braille Literacy Month, and offers a very unusual way to honor the celebration: a t-shirt for language geeks with its message in braille. The "Feel the Love" t-shirt features a message in braille. For the sighted, braille is a secret ... [Published PRWeb - Jan 24 2013]

Entities: Louis Braille, Charles Barbier, Tom Bates, French Army

First reported Jan 04 2013 - Updated Jan 04 2013 - 1 reports

Jan. 4: Braille, Pitman Birthdays Celebrate New Ways to Write

1809: Louis Braille is born. He’ll devise a tactile alphabet for the blind. 1813: Isaac Pitman is born. He’ll devise a shorthand alphabet for quickly writing what people are saying. ... [Published Wired This Day In Tech - Jan 04 2013]

Entities: Isaac Pitman, Louis Braille

First reported Jan 04 2013 - Updated Jan 04 2013 - 1 reports

Nancy Pelosi

Jan. 4 Top of the day

Mostly cloudy, high of 28.Website of the DayLouis BrailleToday is the birthday of Louis Braille (he was born Jan. 4, 1809), the inventor of the reading system for the blind. This site has information on Louis, as well as the history of the Braille alphabet. ... [Published New Philadelphia Times-Reporter - Jan 04 2013]

Entities: Louis Braille, Nancy Pelosi, US Congress

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Google Science Fair: Looking for the next gener... [Published The Official Google Blog - Jan 30 2013] At age 16, Louis Braille invented an alphabet for the blind. When she was 13, Ada Lovelace became fascinated with math and went on to write the first computer program. And at 19, Alexander Graham Bell started experimenting with sound and went on ...
Jan. 4: Braille, Pitman Birthdays Celebrate New... [Published Wired This Day In Tech - Jan 04 2013] 1809: Louis Braille is born. He’ll devise a tactile alphabet for the blind. 1813: Isaac Pitman is born. He’ll devise a shorthand alphabet for quickly writing what people are saying. ...