GC3QMMF Louis Braille; Teacher and Musician (Unknown Cache) in Minnesota, United States created by m&m O

This cache has been archived.

m&m O: No place at GZ to use what is left of this cache. We will put it with our cache supplies and see if it can be used someplace else.

Thanks for getting in touch with the father of Braille.

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Hidden : 7/30/2012

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Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

This cache is not at the listed coordinates.
The cache is in south Moorhead and has been placed with permission.

It is a micro, so be sure to bring something to write with. The stealth icon is for the apartments and all of the balconies to the west of the cache.
FTF prize is an Alabama quarter. “The Alabama quarter is the first U.S. circulating coin to feature braille.”

Do you know how Napoleon Bonaparte ties in with reading and writing for the blind and visually impaired?

Napoleon wanted a way for soldiers to be able to communicate silently at night without using a light, which could give away their location. Charles Barbier invented ‘Night Writing’, a system of gridded raised dots that represented thirty-six different sounds. Encoding and decoding words into sounds, sounds into symbols and back again proved to be too difficult for soldiers to do by touch and Night Writing did not last.

Louis Braille met Barbier in 1821. This meeting and their discussion of Night Writing resulted in Braille’s development of an improved communication system, Braille. There are many types of Braille. When I ran the coordinates for the final location of this cache through a Braille translator I got what is shown below.

We stopped by to check on our cache and found that the place is was is very different and it had been moved about 20 feet to the east. If this turns out to be a permanent move I will update the brail image, but for now; head east a bit.
Good luck and have fun.

Way to go Former Hawkeye! Making the FTF and spreading the word about geocaching.