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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Charles K. Bliss (1897-1985) was an Austrian semiotician and inventor of Blissymbolics. Bliss was born Karl Kasiel Blitz, the eldest of four children to Michel Anchel and Jeanette Blitz, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire near Russia. The family were impoverished and the senior Blitz supported the family as an optician, mechanic and wood turner. Later on Bliss said that the symbols on his father's circuit diagrams made instant sense to him. They were a logical language. He was similarly impressed by chemical symbols which he thought could be read by anyone, regardless of their mother tongue. Bliss' early life was difficult. It was cold and his family were poor and hungry. He suffered anti-Semitic taunts.

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