Kids’ Inventions Throughout History That Changed The World
Some children have truly touched the globe with their innovation
Children may be our perpetual future but they don’t always get listened to when they have ideas. In hindsight, that’s not a good thing, especially since some of those ideas are pure brilliance. Some of the best examples of this throughout history are these three children whose inventions ended up changing the world.
Braille by Louis Braille: Louis Braille was born in Coupvray, France in 1809. Sadly, he was blinded in one eye when he was just three while playing in his father’s tool shop. A subsequent infection spread to the other eye and resulted in blindness. Fortunately, this didn’t stop him from becoming a top-notch student, including receiving a scholarship to attend the prestigious Royal Institute of Blind Youth in Paris.
It was at the Institute that Braille begane working on a system of code that could be used by blind people to both read and write. Inspired by Charles Barbier de la Serre, a former Napoleonic artillery officer who had also invented a number of shorthand and alternative systems of writing, from the age of 12, the precocious youth built his own Only 15 when he presented his work for peer review for the first time, his invention blew people away.
