Marine Park Civic Association

P.O. Box 66 Ryder Station, Brooklyn, NY 11234-0066; Hot-Line & Fax (718) 336-7343

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DID YOU KNOW? - Night Writing
French Captain Charles Barbier, in the early 1800s, tried to develop a method military officers could use to read messages and orders in the dark while in battle. Lighting a torch, or even a match, to have enough light to read the message could very well alert the enemy to their whereabouts. Barbier developed a method of reading in the dark he called "night writing." The system consisted of a series of 12 raised dots, each arranged in a different pattern for various sounds in the language. To test the system out, he found a 13-year-old blind boy and taught him how the system worked.
The boy struggled to learn the system but ultimately failed. It was just too complicated to learn. Barbier gave up on further development of his "night writing" system. The boy, however, did not give up. Rather, he spent 2 years refining the system and ultimately cut the number of dots down to only 6, and instead of each grouping standing for various sounds in the language, he made each series represent one letter of the alphabet. His "new" system spread widely - and is still in use today.
The boy’s name? Louis Braille.

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