A Brief History of the Art of Stenography With a Proposed New System of Phoneti
A Brief History of the Art of Stenography With a Proposed New System of Phoneti
Upham William Phineas
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, by persons who cannot devote much time to its study and practice. For these purposes even some of the alphabetic systems might be found more HISTORY OF STENOGRAPHY. 45 convenient, as for instance that of Taylor, which is equally concise and much more simple in method ; or that of Town- drow, in which each word is written continuously, the vowels and diphthongs being represented by loop-forms easily joined and quickly written, like those employed for some of the con- sonants in the system of B...yrom (1767). The plates on the two following pages exhibit the alpha- bets of forty-four systems published from 1602 to 1802, taken from Lewis's Historical Account of Short-hand already referred to; two alphabets of 1632 and 1636 not given by Lewis ; and the alphabet of To wnd row published in 1837. The one numbered 47, is a mere copy of that of Taylor (Xo. 39). On page 48 will be found a list of the names of the authors and the dates of publication of the alphabets exhibited. s cO ip X r- w X s / ' J - ^ U ) r* i \ ( T V s.
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