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Louis Braille

1809 - 1852

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Louis Braille ( brayl; French: [lwi bʁɑj]; 4 January 1809 – 6 January 1852) was a French educator and the inventor of a reading and writing system named after him, braille, intended for use by visually impaired people. His system is used worldwide and remains virtually unchanged to this day. Braille was blinded in one eye at the age of three. This occurred as a result from an accident with a stitching awl in his father's harness making shop. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Louis Braille is the 11th most popular inventor (up from 12th in 2019), the 92nd most popular biography from France (down from 81st in 2019) and the most popular French Inventor.

Louis Braille is most famous for inventing a system of writing for the blind and visually impaired. This system, called braille, is composed of raised dots that can be read by touch.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Louis Braille ranks 11 out of 426. Before him are James Watt, Karl Benz, Elon Musk, Alexander Graham Bell, Guglielmo Marconi, and Henry Ford. After him are Charles Babbage, Samuel Morse, Nikolaus Otto, Louis Daguerre, Nicolas Appert, and Rudolf Diesel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1809, Louis Braille ranks 7. Before him are Charles Darwin, Edgar Allan Poe, Abraham Lincoln, Felix Mendelssohn, Nikolai Gogol, and William Ewart Gladstone. After him are Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Bruno Bauer, Joseph Liouville, and Albert Pike. Among people deceased in 1852, Louis Braille ranks 3. Before him are Ada Lovelace, and Nikolai Gogol. After him are Friedrich Fröbel, Henry Clay, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Auguste de Marmont, Johan Gadolin, Augustus Pugin, Marie of Hesse-Kassel, and Ján Kollár.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis Braille ranks 92 out of 6,770. Before him are Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757), Irène Joliot-Curie (1897), Pope Clement V (1264), Jacques-Louis David (1748), Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744), and Louis de Broglie (1892). After him are Jean-Paul Belmondo (1933), Louis de Funès (1914), Gustave Courbet (1819), Guy de Maupassant (1850), William the Conqueror (1028), and Alexandre Dumas fils (1824).

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Among INVENTORS In France

Among inventors born in France, Louis Braille ranks 1. After him are Louis Daguerre (1787), Nicolas Appert (1749), Rudolf Diesel (1858), Nicéphore Niépce (1765), Denis Papin (1647), Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752), Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (1725), Louis Blériot (1872), Louis Renault (1877), Claude Chappe (1763), and Jacques de Vaucanson (1709).

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