Today, the Braille writing system is the most well-known language system used by blind people all over the world to read and write. It was1 by Louis Braille, a young blind child at the age of 12, to2 the way blind people read books at the time.
At age 10, Louis Braille got a(n)3 provided by France's National Institution of Blind Youth, where he took up piano. It was there that he first heard a(n)4 , given by a soldier, who told the children about a code (代码) his fellow soldiers used to communicate without5 , at night, in battle.
Braille was very6 and realized that the writing system could actually be adapted to a writing/reading system7 to the blind. He set out and worked to8 the soldier's code. After two years of hard work, Braille9 the now-familiar six-dot alphabet-based (基于字母表的) code. He continued to work on the system over time,10 developing a machine with a friend that let blind people type in the regular alphabet.
Braille published his system when he was 20. Despite the11 from his fellow blind students, the system was refused by some12 and school board members—they13 that blind people might take away their jobs.
Braille14 as a teacher and musician, but his system didn't spread beyond the institution. It was only after his death that the system caught attention and became the15 way blind people read and write around the world.
