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44 relations: Asteroid, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Braille, Braille Authority of North America, Braille music, Braille technology, California School for the Blind, Catholic Church, Charles Barbier, Coupvray, Decapoint, Encyclopædia Britannica, Exposition Universelle (1855), French language, Horse tack, Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles, Jean-Nicolas Marrigues, Julian Messner, Latin alphabet, Leather, Monument historique, National Federation of the Blind, Nemeth Braille, Night writing, Organ (music), Panthéon, Paper embossing, Perkins School for the Blind, Refreshable braille display, RoboBraille, Saint-Nicolas-des-Champs, Paris, Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Paris, Slate and stylus, Somatosensory system, Stitching awl, Sympathetic ophthalmia, T. S. Eliot, The American Philatelist, Thomas Armitage, Tuberculosis, Valentin Haüy, Visual impairment, 1829 braille, 9969 Braille.
Asteroid
Asteroids are minor planets, especially those of the inner Solar System.
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Bibliothèque nationale de France
The (BnF, English: National Library of France) is the national library of France, located in Paris.
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Braille
Braille is a tactile writing system used by people who are visually impaired.
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Braille Authority of North America
The Braille Authority of North America (BANA) is the standardizing body of English Braille orthography in the United States and Canada.
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Braille music
Braille music is a Braille code that allows music to be notated using Braille cells so music can be read by visually impaired musicians.
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Braille technology
Braille technology is assistive technology which allows blind or visually impaired people to do common tasks such as writing, browsing the Internet, typing in Braille and printing in text, engaging in chat, downloading files, music, using electronic mail, burning music, and reading documents.
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California School for the Blind
The California School for the Blind is a public educational institution for blind children, K-12, located in Fremont, California.
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Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.
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Charles Barbier
Charles Barbier de la Serre (18 May 1767 – 29 April 1841) was the creator of night writing.
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Coupvray
Coupvray is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.
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Decapoint
Decapoint, or raphigraphy, was a tactile form of the Latin script invented by Louis Braille as a system that could be used by both the blind and sighted.
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Encyclopædia Britannica
The Encyclopædia Britannica (Latin for "British Encyclopaedia"), published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.
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Exposition Universelle (1855)
The Exposition Universelle of 1855 was an International Exhibition held on the Champs-Élysées in Paris from 15 May to 15 November 1855.
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French language
French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.
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Horse tack
Tack is a piece of equipment or accessory equipped on horses in the course of their use as domesticated animals.
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Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles
Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles, (National Institute for Blind Children or Royal Institution for Blind Youth), in Paris, was the first special school for blind students in the world, and served as a model for many subsequent schools for blind students.
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Jean-Nicolas Marrigues
Jean-Nicolas Marrigues (1757 – 15 March 1834) was a French organist.
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Julian Messner
Julian Messner, Inc. was an American publishing house founded in 1933.
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Latin alphabet
The Latin alphabet or the Roman alphabet is a writing system originally used by the ancient Romans to write the Latin language.
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Leather
Leather is a durable and flexible material created by tanning animal rawhides, mostly cattle hide.
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Monument historique
* Monument historique is a designation given to some national heritage sites in France.
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National Federation of the Blind
The National Federation of the Blind (NFB) is an organization of blind people in the United States.
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Nemeth Braille
The Nemeth Braille Code for Mathematics is a Braille code for encoding mathematical and scientific notation linearly using standard six-dot Braille cells for tactile reading by the visually impaired.
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Night writing
Night writing, a.k.a. sonography, was a system of code that used symbols of twelve dots arranged as two columns of six dots embossed on a square of paperboard, and is now remembered as the forerunner of Braille.
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Organ (music)
In music, the organ (from Greek ὄργανον organon, "organ, instrument, tool") is a keyboard instrument of one or more pipe divisions or other means for producing tones, each played with its own keyboard, played either with the hands on a keyboard or with the feet using pedals.
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Panthéon
The Panthéon (pantheon, from Greek πάνθειον (ἱερόν) '(temple) to all the gods') is a building in the Latin Quarter in Paris, France.
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Paper embossing
Embossing and debossing are the processes of creating either raised or recessed relief images and designs in paper and other materials.
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Perkins School for the Blind
Perkins School for the Blind, in Watertown, Massachusetts, is the oldest school for the blind in the United States.
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Refreshable braille display
A refreshable braille display or braille terminal is an electro-mechanical device for displaying braille characters, usually by means of round-tipped pins raised through holes in a flat surface.
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RoboBraille
RoboBraille is a web and email service capable of converting documents into a range of accessible formats including Braille, mp3, e-books and Daisy.
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Saint-Nicolas-des-Champs, Paris
The Church of Saint-Nicolas-des-Champs (Église Saint-Nicolas-des-Champs) is a Catholic church in Paris' Third arrondissement.
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Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Paris
The Church of Saint-Vincent-de-Paul (Église Saint-Vincent-de-Paul) is a church in the 10th arrondissement of Paris dedicated to Saint Vincent de Paul.
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Slate and stylus
The slate and stylus are tools used by blind persons to write text that they can read without assistance.
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Somatosensory system
The somatosensory system is a part of the sensory nervous system.
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Stitching awl
A stitching awl is a tool with which holes can be punctured in a variety of materials, or existing holes can be enlarged.
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Sympathetic ophthalmia
Sympathetic ophthalmia (SO) or Sympathetic uveitis is a bilateral diffuse granulomatous uveitis (a kind of inflammation) of both eyes following trauma to one eye.
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T. S. Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot, (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965), was an essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and "one of the twentieth century's major poets".
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The American Philatelist
The American Philatelist, published by the American Philatelic Society, is one of the world's oldest philatelic magazines still in operation; its first issue having appeared in January 1887.
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Thomas Armitage
Thomas Rhodes Armitage (2 April 1824 – 23 October 1890) was a British physician, and founder of the Royal National Institute of Blind People.
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Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease usually caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB).
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Valentin Haüy
Valentin Haüy (pronounced; 13 November 1745 – 19 March 1822) was the founder, in 1785, of the first school for the blind, the Institute for Blind Youth in Paris (now Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles, or the National Institute for the Young Blind, INJA).
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Visual impairment
Visual impairment, also known as vision impairment or vision loss, is a decreased ability to see to a degree that causes problems not fixable by usual means, such as glasses.
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1829 braille
Louis Braille's original publication, Procedure for Writing Words, Music, and Plainsong in Dots (1829), credits Barbier's night writing as being the basis for the braille script.
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9969 Braille
9969 Braille, provisional designation, is an eccentric, rare-type and elongated asteroid from the innermost regions of the asteroid belt, classified as Mars-crosser and slow rotator, approximately 1–2 kilometers in diameter.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Braille
