HISTORY OF
SHORTHAND
TO IDENTIFY THE INVENTORS OF
SHORTHAND AND THEIR
BACKGROUNDS
agenda
TO LEARN THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF
SHORTHAND
TO HAVE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT
SHORTHAND AND ITS PURPOSE
What is SHORTHAND?
• shorthand is a rapid
handwriting, it is one of the
way to express the feeling,
sound, characters,
abbreviations, words and
phrases. It is used symbols
to represent the words,
phrases and letters.
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SHORTHAND INVENTORS
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JOHN WILLIS
ISAAC PITMAN
FATHER OF
MODERN
SHORTHAND
PITMAN
SHORTHAND
JOHN ROBERT GREGG​
GREGG
SHORTHAND
HISRTORY OF SHORTHAND
JAMES HILLS
TEELINE
SHORTHAND
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THE WORK OF
THE INVENTORS
PITMAN SHORTHAND
“A SYSTEM OF ABBREVIATED
WRITING OFTEN USED IN
TRANSCRIPTION.”
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GREGG SHORTHAND
“IT IS LIKE CURSIVE LONGHAND,
COMPLETELY BASED ON
ELLIPTICAL FIGURES AND LINES
THAT BISECT THEM.”
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TEELINE SHORTHAND
“IT ELIMINATES UNNCESSARY
LETTERS, SO THAT THE REMAINING
LETTERS CAN BE WRITTEN IN ONE
SWIFT, SWEEPING MOVEMENT.”
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SHORT HISTORY
OF THE
INVENTORS
HISTORY OF ISAAC PITMAN
ISAAC PITMAN WAS BORN ON JANUARY 4, 1813 IN T ROWBRIDGE ,
WILTSHIRE, ENGLAND HE WAS A TEACHER OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
WHO DEVELOPED THE MOST WIDELY USED SYSTEM OF SHORTHAND,
KNOWN NOW AS PITMAN SHORTHAND.
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HISTORY OF JOHN ROBERT
GREGG
JOHN ROBERT GREGG, WAS AN IRISH EDUCATOR, PUBLISHER AND
HUMANITARIAN (BORN JUNE 17, 1867, ROCKCORRY, COUNTY
MONAGHAN, IRELAND. IRISH-BORN AMERICAN INVENTOR OF A
SHORTHAND SYSTEM NAMED FOR HIM(GREGG SHORTHAND).
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HISTORY OF JAMES HILLS
TEELINE IS A SHORTHAND SYSTEM DEVELOPED IN 1968 BY JAMES
HILL WHO WAS BORN NEAR BRADFORD IN 1908,A TEACHER OF
PITMAN SHORTHAND.
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HISTORY OF SPEEDWRITING
EMMA B. DEAR BORN (FEBRUARY 1, 1875) WORKED AS A
SHORTHAND INSTRUCTOR AND TRAINER OF SHORTHAND TEACHERS
AT SIMMONS COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, AND SEVERAL
OTHER INSTITUTIONS.
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REFERENCES:
• https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Robert-Gregg
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Pitman
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teeline_Shorthand
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedwriting
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