American Fork Citizen | 1920-01-31 | Page 8 | Modern Shorthand Had Birth in 1857 |

Type	issue
Date	1920-01-31
Paper	American Fork Citizen
Language	eng
City	American Fork
County	Utah
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Article Title	Modern Shorthand Had Birth in 1857
Type	article
Date	1920-01-31
Paper	American Fork Citizen
Language	eng
City	American Fork
County	Utah
Page	8
OCR Text	Show Modern Shorthand Had Birth In 1857. Modern shorthand had Its hlrth In 'he ptihllciHlon of Dr. Timothy Ilrlcht'H "eharacterle" In tS.'i". the tlrst ICiikIIsIi 'work' nn shorthand. Various Va-rious sj stoins of shorthand were published pub-lished from that tlmo on. nil based on the a b e method, and some of them became quite popular, but with the publication of Isaac I'ltnmn'H 'plioiioKniphy." based on sound, all the others fell Into disuse. Pitman had n number of predecessors whoso systems, like his own. were strictly phonetic. Tliei systems never gain-(ed gain-(ed any footliic. while his lininedlatolj' hecamo popular, and has since beet used by a largo majority of shorthand writers of KiikIIsIi. i
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