1786 HAÜY, Valentin (1745 – 1822)
Essai sur l’éducation des aveugles, ou exposé des différens moyens, vérifiés par l'expérience, pour les mettre en état de lire, à l'aide du tact, d'imprimer des livres dans lesquels ils puissent prendre des connoissances, de langues, d'histoire, de géographie, de musique, &c., d'exécuter différens travaux relatifs aux métiers, &c.
Haüy founded the first school for the blind. To him belongs the honor of being the first to emboss paper as a means of creating raised type that could be read by the blind. His Essai originated modern methods of teach…
GMN 5833 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7091
1817 HAÜY, Valentin (1745 – 1822)
Notice historique sur l'Institution Royale des Jeunes Aveugles.
The first book printed in heavily embossed type for the blind. In 1819 Sebastien Guillé issued a second edition of this work identifying himself as the author.
GMN 13247 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15512
1829 BRAILLE, Louis (1809 – 1852)
Procede pour écrire les paroles, la musique et le plain-chant au moyen de points, a l’usage des aveugles et dispose pour eux.
This large quarto volume of 4 preliminary leaves and 32 pages included the first presentation of the Braille system of printing and reading for the blind, which represents letters and numbers by combinations of six do…
GMN 8925 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11103
1837 BRAILLE, Louis (1809 – 1852)
Procéde pour écrire au moyen des points.
Braille, himself blind, modified the system of elevated points first suggested by Charles Barbier in 1820 for enabling the blind to read. In 1837 he added symbols for mathematics and music to his six dot system.
GMN 5851 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7185
1873 MOON, William (1818 – 1894)
Light for the blind: A history of the origin and success of Moon’s system of reading (embossed in various languages) for the blind.
Moon became totally blind at the age of 22. He taught other blind people and devised a simplified form of roman letters, embossed on paper, for use by blind readers. This was in 1845, and two years later he published …
GMN 5909 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6784
1878 LAMSON, Mary Swift (1822 – 1909)
The life and education of Laura Dewey Bridgman, the deaf, dumb, and blind girl.
Biography of Laura Bridgman (1829-89, the first deaf-blind person ever to read, write, and converse in the finger alphabet. The book includes a signed holograph facsimile of Bridgman's widely circulated religious poem…
GMN 7745 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9917
