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William Moon (1818 - October 9, 1894) was an Englishman originally from Horsmonden, Kent. By 1839 he had become totally blind and had moved in with his widowed mother and sister in Brighton, East Sussex. He taught embossed reading codes developed by several people (Alston, Frere, Gall, and Lucas) to local boys who were blind, but found that the boys considered these systems difficult to learn. He first formulated ideas for using embossed letters in 1843 and they were published in 1845. (See Moon type.)

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