Obituary: Blind engineer John J. Boyer developed software for people with visual disabilities
John J. Boyer, raised on a Minnesota farm family with 12 children, was born blind and lost most of his hearing by the time he was 10 years old.
None of that stopped him from setting up a basement science lab and aspiring to be another Thomas Edison. What did frustrate him was a lack of textbooks in braille. “When I was in high school, my physics book was older than I was and didn’t even explain what made the sun hot,” he would later tell the Wisconsin State Journal.
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