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The Country of the Blind
99% Invisible
The Rise and Fall of Braille
Samuel Gridley Howe came to visit the Royal Institute in France. In true American fashion, he found all their fancy flourishes impractical and typical of European excess. So he decided to make his own system that improved on the European's work. Boston Line Type is really the beginning of literacy as we know it for people who are blind in the United States.
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