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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human McCarthy, G.J. updated 2019-12-17 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P001128b.htm person Bliss Charles Kasiel AACR2 1897 13 July 1985 Place of Birth Austria Chemist Charles Bliss was a research chemist and the inventor of a universal language employing symbols. After his release from a Nazi concentration camp in 1938 he moved to England, then Shanghai, and settled in Australia in 1946.

Born Austria, 1897. Died 1985. AM 1976. Educated Vienna University of Technology (graduated in chemical engineering 1922). Research chemist, later chief of the patent department in an electronics company ca 1922-38; German concentration camp 1938; England 1938-40; Shanghai 1940-46; began to develop his system of pictorial symbol writing 1942; settled in Australia 1946. Wrote "Semantography (Blissymbolics)" and "The Invention and Discovery that will Change our Lives". Published a reoneoed newsletter, "Semantography Series", 1949-64.

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 'Bliss, Charles Kasiel', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Bliss, Charles Kasiel Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Charles Kasiel Bliss - Records National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection Charles Kasiel Bliss - Records MS 3884 1943 - 1984 Correspondence, cuttings, research notes, and roneod material relating to Bliss's several publications on semantography and communications. The newspaper and journal cuttings, together with work notes and early drafts of articles form the basis of his two most important books Semantography (Blissymbolics) and The Invention and Discovery that will change our lives. The Papers also contain over 200 issues of Bliss's roneoed newsletters Semantography Series (1949, 1-1964, no. 203). Principal correspondents are Douglas Everingham, Professor Oliver Reiser, and Fritz Treuer [10.06 m, MS 3884]. 10.06 m, 68 boxes, 1 folio