Bringing Braille into the Computer Age: Carrying on the Torch

By Robert J. Richey

Recently this Writer received information from a local Center for the Blind concerning the present method of converting a book into Braille.
The Staff of this particular Center for the Blind had converted a Biology text book into Braille. Nine books had been ordered. These nine books in Braille were intended to enable nine students to read along with sighted pupils in the same class.
Each of the nine book orders of 43 volumes consisted of 3601 pages.
Thermoform copies of each page had to be made. After they had been created they had to be punched and labeled. The nine orders were then shipped to the customer.
The charges for the Order came to $763.20.
To prepare each of the nine sets of 43 books took the volunteers from January 6, 2003 until February 26, 2003. This time did not take into account other work the Transcribers performed at home.

Within the pages of this book one will find the following:
1. A revised simplified Braille and a Reverse Braille for transcribing Braille. Easy to learn and easy to use.
2. A proposal and design for a dynamic Reader where any book; textbook or other, can be loaded from a CD and read directly in the Revised Braille.
3. The fascinating Story of how the Louis Braille Code came to be written.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: May 1, 2012
• ISBN: 9781468584745

Robert J. Richey

This author earlier in life was an aerospace engineer for six years. Three of those years were devoted to performing analysis on various components of the outer shells of the Apollo command modules. Three other years involved being in an environmental group on a project for the Douglas Space Center. Eleven years were spent as a registered professional engineer in traffic engineering in California while employed by a county in California. Other projects involved designing the large traffic signs on California State Highway 85 and computerizing several expressway-signalized interconnected systems as a consultant. This author is presently retired.

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Bringing Braille into 

 the Computer Age

Carrying on the Torch

Robert J. Richey

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Contents

Foreword

The Story of Louis Braille

The Current Braille System

The French Revolution

The Rise of Napoleon 

 Bonaparte as Emperor

Captain Charles Barbier 

 de la serre

The Contributions by 

 Mr. Pignier

The Louis Braille System

The First Braille Writer

The Four Events that led 

 to the creation of the 

 Braille Code:

Charles Barbier’s Night 

 Writing Grid

Robert Richey’s Revised 

 BrailleGrid Numbering 

 System

Robert Richey’s Dynamic 

 Braille Reading System 

 for the Use of the 

 Individual with Visual 

 Sight Impairment

Robert Richey’s Dynamic 

 Braille Reader Cont’d

Programming

Braille in Various Languages

Summary

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