How Braille was invented | Moments of Vision 9 - Jessica Oreck

Hvordan Braille blev opfundet | Visionært Øjeblikke 9 - Jessica Oreck

Translator: Kristina Pocaite Reviewer: Anders Finn Jørgensen

In a Moment of Vision...

I et Visionært Øjeblik...

Early 1800s.

Tidlige 1800'erne.

It's the middle of the Napoleonic Wars in the middle of Europe,

Det er midten af Napoleonskrigene, i midten af Europa,

and it's the middle of the night.

og det er midnat.

One Captain Charles Barbier of Napoleon's army

En Kaptajn Charles Barbier af Napoleon's hær

is trying to relay a message to one of his troops.

prøver at sende en besked til en af sine tropper.

But sending written communications to the front lines

Men at sende skriftlige meddelelser til frontlinjerne

can be deadly for the recipient.

kan være dødeligt for modtageren.

Lighting a candle to read the missive can give away their positions to the enemy.

At tænde et lys for at læse budsendelserne kan afsløre deres positioner til fjenden.

In a moment of vision,

I et visionært øjeblik,

Barbier pokes a series of holes into a sheet of a paper with his blade,

stikker Barbier en række huller i et papirark med sit sværd

creating a coded message that can be deciphered by fingertip,

og skæber dermed en kodet meddelelse som kan afkodes med fingerspidsen,

even in the pitch black.

selv i mørket.

The merits of his so-called night writing are never acknowledged by the military,

Militæret anerkender aldrig fortdelene ved hans såkaldt nat skrivning,

but in 1821, Barbier approaches the Royal Institute for Blind Youth in Paris

men i 1821, henvender Barbier sig til det Kongelige Institut til Blinde Unge i Paris

in the hopes that they might find a use

med forhåbninger om at de kan finde noget et bruge

for his innovative, new communication method.

hans inovative og nye kommunikationsmetode til.

There, a precocious teen by the name of Louis Braille does just that.

En gammelklog teenager ved navn Louis Braille gør præcis dette.

Louis spends the next several years improving on Barbier's idea,

Louis tilrbinger de næste adskillige år med at forbedre Barbier's ide

creating an organized alphabet fitting into a six dot standardized cell.

og skaber en organiseret alfabet med en seks-prikker standardiseret celle.

The system catches on.

Systemet vinder anerkendelse.

Today, Braille is the universally accepted system of writing for the blind,

I dag er Braille det alment accepterede skriftlsystem for blinde,

adapted for more than 130 languages.

og er tilpasset til mere end 130 sprog.