Louis Braille had wanted the blind to gain access to the worlds of knowledge contained in books. When Helen Keller died on June 1, 1968 at the age of 87, she had not only read more than most ...

Eclipsed by his fame as the inventor of the telephone, phonograph, metal detector, and early forms of the hydrofoil (among other machines) is the extensive work that Alexander Graham Bell did with the ...

Helen Keller was both deaf and blind ... disable people – she persuaded Congress to change the law so that books in braille would be made available in libraries. She wrote many books on social ...