Charles Barbier de la Serre was the creator of night writing. Night writing was a system of code that used symbols of twelve dots arranged as two columns of six dots. ...

Charles Barbier de la Serre was a Captain in the French Army during the early 1800s. He was an artillery officer. Since he was on the front line constantly, he couldn't turn on a lamp when he needed to read a message because it would expose you to enemy fire. Because of this Barbier created a code that consisted of raised dots poked onto a piece of paper. This code was night writing. French soldiers of the IFOR in Mostar, 1995. ... Events and Trends Beginning of the Napoleonic Wars (1803 - 1815). ... Historically, artillery refers to any engine used for the discharge of projectiles during war. ... Night writing was a system of code that used symbols of twelve dots arranged as two columns of six dots. ...

Eventually Barbier introduced his concept to the blind. While at the Royal Institution for Blind Youths in Paris, Charles Barbier de la Serre met Louis Braille, who was a boy at the time. Braille had suggestions on improving the code, but because of Charles Barbier de la Serre's aristocratic manner, he felt insulted that a boy had tried to improve his code. Later Braille transformed the night writing, which Barbier had invented, and turned it into a system used to this day, Braille. See also Blindness (novel) Blindness can be defined physiologically as the condition of lacking visual perception. ... It was not until the late 18th century that society began to take an interest in the education of the blind. ... Louis Braille (January 4, 1809 – January 6, 1852) was the inventor of braille, a world-wide system used by blind and visually impaired people for reading and writing. ... Night writing was a system of code that used symbols of twelve dots arranged as two columns of six dots. ... The braille system, named after Louis Braille, is a method that is widely used by blind people to read and write. ...