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1837year
Isaac Pitman published Stenographic Sound-Hand in 1837, introducing Pitman shorthand.
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“In 1837 Isaac Pitman published Stenographic Sound-Hand in London at the press of Samuel Bagster, introducing Pitman shorthand”
Pitman Shorthand, & The First "Correspondence Course" (1837), History of Information, n.d., Entry for 1837.
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- The 1837 pamphlet was issued in London by the publisher Samuel Bagster.
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- A secondary timeline entry, not the 1837 pamphlet itself.
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