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Charles Barbier de la Serre was the creator of night writing.
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.
Eventually Barbier introduced his concept to the blind. While at the Royal Institution for Blind Youth 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 Barbier, because of his aristocratic manner, 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.
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