CKLA Louis Braille

How did Louis Braille’s invention come from another invention?

• He used the filiment from the lightbulb.

• He used wiring skills from the telegraph

• He took the idea of the telephone and used buttons like it.

• He took the night-writing code Charles Barbier developed for the army and improved it.

Louis Braille was born in _______________.

• Febuary 4, 1909

• January 4, 1809

• Janurary 1, 2000

• December 25 1800

At what age did Louis Braille completely lose his eyesight?

• 3

• 4

• 5

• 6

How did he go blind?

• He got the disease Polio

• He accidentally poked himself in the eye with his dad's tool.

• He looked at the sun too long

• It natually occured and he didn't do anything.

Where did he go to school as a kid?

• A blind school in Paris

• A gifted school for the blind in Africa

• boarding school in England

• The awesome school for the blind in California

Braille created an alphabet for the blind at age____?

• 13

• 14

• 15

• 13

Braille alphabet looked like _______.

• dominoes

• buttons on a computer

• tiny raised dots

• large raised dots.

The successful Braille alphabet led to what additional inventions?

• cell phones

• cars

• the constitution

• math equations in Braille and music writing

Was Braille easy to print?

• Yes

• No

What does it mean when Heady says, "Invention breeds invention?"

• Inventors are good at breeding dogs

• Breeding inventions is difficult

• Successful inventions led to other inventions

• Inventors breed inventions by watching pets