Download or read book Who Was Louis Braille? written by Margaret Frith and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-03-13 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louis Braille certainly wasn't your average teenager. Blind from the age of four, he was only fifteen when in 1824 he invented a reading system that converted printed words into columns of raised dots. Through touch, Braille opened the world of books to the sightless, and almost two hundred years later, no one has ever improved upon his simple, brilliant idea.