Louis Braille
he blinded himself at the age of 3 by stabbing his eye out with an awl. he invented what we now know as braille for both writing and musical notation when he was fifteen. he was a talented church organist, and became a professor at the paris school for the blind. two years after his death the braille code was adopted by france for teaching the blind. braille was the first system that allowed blind people to read quickly and easily, and the first system ever to allow blind people to write. in the 50s his body was moved to the pantheon alongside other heroes of france. the united states treasury has issued a commemorative coin honoring him, and he has schools, and even an asteroid named after him.
what’s the moral of the story? contrary to what your mom always told you, playing with sharp metal objects isn’t just good fun, it may just make you famous!
louis braille was blind.
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