From the invention of the alphabet to the explosion of the internet, Dominic Wyse takes us on a unique journey into the process of writing. Starting with seven extraordinary examples that serve as a ...

Here are six things that you might be surprised to know were invented by young people ... military for reading at night into a simplified alphabet that could be used by blind people.

DR YIJIE ZHUANG:So it's still the same idea, fundamentally. PRESENTER:'So the Chinese writing invented by the Shang 'wasn't an alphabet like our writing, it was pictographic. 'That means their ...