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Pitman. Sir Isaac Pitman devised his shorthand system in 1837, basing his simpler phonetic shorthand on an earlier method. The former clerk and schoolteacher lived to see almost universal acceptance of his invention, which his brother Benn helped popularize on the other side of the Atlantic when he im- migrated to the United States in 1852 and established the Pho- nographic Institute in Cincinnati. The phonographer died in 1897, aged 84, when the even simpler gregg system was re- placing Pitman. |