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MOON, William (1818 – 1894)

MOON, William (1818 – 1894)

1818 – 1894

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1873 CE

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Light for the blind: A history of the origin and success of Moon’s system of reading (embossed in various languages) for the blind.

MOON, William (1818 – 1894)
MOON, William (1818 – 1894)

Moon became totally blind at the age of 22. He taught other blind people and devised a simplified form of roman letters, embossed on paper, for use by blind readers. This was in 1845, and two years later he published …