Lewis Carroll invented a way to write in the dark.

Lewis Carroll invented a way to write in the dark. It is one of the interesting facts about Lewis Carroll that Toplist wants to mention first.

Dodgson, like many other writers, was frustrated by losing great ideas in the middle of the night, so he invented the nyctograph in 1891. Of course, you can easily write in the dark with your phone or even use text to speech nowadays, but Lewis Carroll liked useless machines and inventions that combined literature and technology - Rayuelomatic, The Klausner Machine, Haiku Reader, and Jorge Luis Borges Animatronic - so I decided to make the Nyctograph Machine, which is a small device capable of translating from our alphabet to nyctography to print banners.

One of his most brilliant inventions was a device that allowed people to write in the dark. The nyctograph was his invention. This device consisted of a piece of card with 16 square holes (two rows of eight) that served as a guide for the user to enter a shorthand alphabet code consisting of dots and dashes. The ideal solution for a literary genius who never knows when his ideas will strike. Carroll saw this device as most useful for jotting down ideas while sleeping, but it could also be useful for the blind or partially sighted.