Antique Stenographer's Machine (Collector's Item) Patented 1916

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Antique Stenographer's Machine (Collector's Item)
Patented 1916
A Brief History of the Stenograph Machine
The history of the stenograph machine is interwoven with the history of shorthand and the typewriter.  Effectively, the typewriter made writing faster and the stenograph machine made recording shorthand faster.
The history of shorthand can be traced back to Ancient Greece in the mid 4th Century BCE.  However, modern English shorthand was introduced in 1837 by Isaac Pitman.  His shorthand was a phonetic system using light and heavy lines to distinguish sounds.  In 1888, John Gregg introduces his shorthand which was also  a phonetic system but used used line length to distinguish sound.  Gregg’s shorthand became mainly popular in the USA.
The history of the typewriter can be traced back to 1808 when Pellegrino Turri of Italy made the first typewriter.  No one knows what it looked like or how it operated but a sample of the typing still exists.  In 1873,  E. Remington & Sons produce the first widespread American typewriter.  It featured one of the first QWERTY keyboards.  In 1895,  the Underwood typewriter is produced in America.  It featured a frontstroke, type bar design,  a QWERTY (4 rows) keyboard, and used an inked ribbon.  The design became the standard “look” for the typewriter.
The Father of the stenograph machine is considered to be Miles Bartholomew of Illinois.  In 1877, Bartholomew invents his Stenograph machine.  It created one "letter" at a time, represented by a series of dashes, by pressing one or more keys simultaneously in alternating right and left hand movements.  His machine was used as late as 1937 by official courters.
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