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“1829 Isaac Pitman took up Samuel Taylor’s shorthand.
1837 Isaac Pitman published Stenography Sound-Hand. Pitman shorthand became the first subject taught by correspondence. Jacob Pitman, Isaac Pitman’s elder brother, took Isaac’s Sound-Hand with him to Australia.
1839 The First Phonetic Institute opened at 5 Nelson Place, Bath by Isaac Pitman.
1840 The second edition of Pitman’s Stenography Sound-Hand published, and by the end of the year the third edition was on the shelves.
1842 The Phonographic Journal No 1 went on sale (now the Pitman’s Phonetic Journal).
1843 The Phonographic Correspondence Society established in the United Kingdom.
1845 Isaac Pitman established his first printing press.
1846 A Phonographic Dictionary of the English Language, the first ever Pitman dictionary, was published, containing 12,000 outlines.
1851 The Second Phonetic Institute opened by Pitman at Upper Bristol Road, Bath. Isaac Pitman won a bronze medal at the Great Exhibition for his printed shorthand.
1852 Benn Pitman went to America, introduced Pitman shorthand and established the Phonographic Institute of Cincinnati.
1855 Pitman’s Third Phonetic Institute opened at Parsonage Lane, Bath. The first Shorthand Speed Certificates issued by the Phonetic Institute in Bath.
1864 The Royal Society of Arts began shorthand examinations.
- 1870 Pitman’s Metropolitan School was opened in London.”
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