Louis Braille created braille. Braille is a code of raised dots that people who are blind can read. The raised dots in braille are shaped in a way so it looks like a cell, and each cell represents one letter. In every cell there are six dots.

Louis Braille was a flexible thinker. He first got the idea of braille from a french soldier who came to his school to show the students a code of raised dots he had invented for soldiers to communicate in the dark. The system that the soldier had developed had letters that were too large to write easily with, so Louis Braille created a new system of raised dots. He created the dots by pushing a stylus into a sheet of paper writing the characters right to left. When he turned over the paper the