Donna Audire, Age 12, Of Lancaster, Penna., for her question:

Who invented braille writing?

The inventor was a 15 year old blind boy of France. His name was Louis Braille, and he lost his sight in an accident at the age of three. But this handicap did not dim his desire to enjoy life and satisfy his natural curiosity. He loved music and science and faced the problem of being unable to read.

Young Braille based his sightless reading on a system of raised dots. The raised bumps are made by punching holes through stiff paper. A blind person reads braille by feeling the dots as we read by seeing the print. He feels the raised writing with his sensitive finger tips and reads by his sense of touch.