[1]
year=1809
_story=Born on January 4th in Coupvary near Paris in France.
image=louis_braille/louis.png

[2]
year=1812
_story=Louis Braille injured his right eye with a stitching awl from his father's workshop.
image=louis_braille/workshop.jpg

[3]
year=1812
_story=At the age of three, Louis became blind due to a severe infection that spread to his left eye.
image=louis_braille/fireplace.jpg

[4]
year=1819
_story=At the age of 10, he was sent to Paris to study at the Royal Institute for Blind Youth.
image=louis_braille/rnib.jpg

[5]
year=1820
_story=He impressed his classmates and began to play the piano and the organ.
image=louis_braille/piano.svg

[6]
year=1821
_story=Charles Barbier, a French soldier, visited his school and shared his invention of night writing, a code of 12 raised dots to share information on battlefields.
image=louis_braille/night_printing.jpg

[7]
year=1824
_story=Louis trimmed Barbier's 12 dots into 6 and invented the Braille system.
image=louis_braille/braile.jpg

[8]
year=1828
_story=He became a teacher after graduating and promoted his method while secretly teaching it at the Institute.
image=louis_braille/teach.jpg

[9]
year=1837
_story=He revised and extended braille to include mathematics, symbols, punctuations and music notations.
image=louis_braille/chart.png

[10]

year=1852
_story=He died of tuberculosis. He is burried in the Pantheon in Paris. A monument is erected to honor him.
image=louis_braille/statue.jpg

[11]
_year=After his Death
_story=Braille got accepted as a world wide standard. Louis Braille proved that if you have motivation you can do incredible things.
image=louis_braille/braille_ball.jpg
