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Le Musée Valentin Haüy: A different vision of history
This is no ordinary terrestrial globe. And you’ll find it in a museum that is anything but ordinary. When we move in closer, we find that it is labelled in Braille. And the map shown below is not your average … Continue reading →
The Technology of Compassion
I had just finished typing when typewriter collector Martin Howard took the photo below. If you read Braille, you will see that it says “parisian fields.” The Pantheon is the final resting place of France’s heroes: Voltaire, Victor Hugo, Émile … Continue reading →
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Tagged Braille, Carolina Fantoni da Fivizzano, Charles Barbier de la Serre, Coupvray, Frank H. Hall, Hall Braille Writer, Helen Keller, Illinois Institution for the Education of the Blind, Jacques Joseph Emile Badiou de la Tronchère, L’Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles, Louis Braille, Martin Howard, Napoleon Bonaparte, New York Point System, Pantheon, Pelligrino Turri, Valentin Haüy
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