William Moon

William Moon was born in Kent in 1818. He lost his sight at the age of 21 after being partially sighted throughout his childhood. He soon mastered all the existing systems of embossed reading available at that time but found none of them particularly satisfactory. William Moon set about designing a simple system which was easy to learn. At that time he was teaching blind boys, who quickly got to grips with his new system. In 1847, Dr Moon issued …