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  Sir Isaac Pitman
Pitman devoted himself to perfecting phonography and propagating its use, and established at Bath a Phonetic Institute and a Phonetic Journal for this purpose; he printed in shorthand a number of standard works, and his book with the title Phonography (1840) went through many editions.
Pitman was twice married, his first wife dying in 1857, and his second, whom he married in 1861, surviving him.
Sir Isaac Pitman popularized shorthand at a time when the advance of the newspaper press and modern business methods were making it a matter of great commercial importance.
www.nndb.com /people/917/000095632   (354 words)

  
  Sir Isaac Pitman - LoveToKnow 1911
SIR ISAAC PITMAN (1813-1897), English phonographer, was born at Trowbridge, Wiltshire, on the 4th of January 1813, and was educated at the local grammar school.
Pitman devoted himself to perfecting phonography and propagating its use, and established at Bath a Phonetic Institute and a Phonetic Journal for this purpose; he printed in shorthand a number of standard works, and his book with the title Phonography (1840) went through many editions.
Pitman was twice married, his first wife dying in 1857, and his second, whom he married in 1861, surviving him.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Sir_Isaac_Pitman   (404 words)

  
 Isaac Pitman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir Isaac Pitman (January 4, 1813 – January 22, 1897), knighted in 1894, developed the most widely used system of shorthand, known now as Pitman Shorthand.
Pitman was a qualified teacher and taught at a private school he founded in Wotton-under-Edge.
Isaac Pitman is the grandfather of Sir James Pitman, famous for developing the Initial Teaching Alphabet.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Isaac_Pitman   (170 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Stenographer
The system was introduced to Australia by Isaac's brother Jacob and to the USA by another brother, Benn, that used it in the 1865-67 trial of the conspirators behind the 1865 assasination of Abraham Lincoln.
Pitman's system replaced the system developed by Samuel Taylor in 1786, the first English shorthand system that succeeded to be used all over the English speaking world.
Although Pitman's method was extremely popular at first (and is still commonly used, especially in the UK) its popularity has been superseded (especially in the United States) by a method developed by John Robert Gregg in 1888.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Stenographer   (1010 words)

  
 Wotton-under-Edge Sir Isaac Pitman was born in Trowbridge, Wiltshire Head Master of the British School Wotton-under-Edge
Pitman is quoted as having once said "I have no intention of becoming a shorthand author".
Isaac Pitman was born at Trowbridge, Wiltshire, on January 4th, 1813.
In 1837 Isaac Pitman opened a private school at Wotton-under-Edge, and one of the subjects he taught his scholars was shorthand.
cotswoldedge.org.uk /w-u-e/isaac/ipitman.htm   (532 words)

  
 About NCRA > History > Sir Isaac Pitman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Sir Isaac Pitman, born in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, is undoubtedly the "Father of Phonographic Shorthand," and he could also be called the grandfather of many Pitmanic systems - as well as others - which sprang from his ninth edition that Benn Pitman popularized in America.
Perfectionist that he was, Isaac Pitman was continually revising his own system and took it through 12 numbered editions before his death in 1897 at the age of 84.
In the development of Pitmanic adaptations in the United States, each originator sought to "make a good system better." With the diminishing use of Pitman in the United States, it is sometimes overlooked that the system is still the predominant shorthand in England and all the former British territories.
www.verbatimreporters.com /about/history/pitman.shtml   (514 words)

  
 Our Family Tree - aqwg80
Isaac Edward Pitman [Parents] was born 4 Sep 1814 in Virgina.
Isaac Edward Pitman was born 1 Jan 1860 in Indiana.
Delilia Catherine Pitman was born 9 Jun 1864 in Indiana.
www.tomkinshome.com /familyweb/aqwg80.htm   (748 words)

  
 Isaac Pitman - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Isaac Pitman
A simplified Pitman Script, combining letters and signs, was devised in 1971 by Emily D Smith.
Pitman's grandson, (Isaac) James Pitman (1901–85), devised the 44-letter Initial Teaching Alphabet in the 1960s to help children to read.
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Isaac+Pitman   (123 words)

  
 Simplified Spelling Society : SSS pamflet 11.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Sir Isaac Pitman, the grandfather of our present President, [1] died in 1897, and he had spent a lifetime in trying to persuade the English-speaking peoples to systematise their spelling.
The enterprise of Sir Isaac Pitman in the educational field was repeated by the Society.
As head of the publishing firm of Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, he was in a special position to be of great value to the Society, and in May 1936 Sir James was elected to the Committee.
www.spellingsociety.org /journals/pamflets/p11ssshistory.php   (2897 words)

  
 Sir Isaac Pitman - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The publisher did not accept the work, but suggested that Pitman should invent a new system (see Shorthand) of his own.
He was a nonsmoker, a vegetarian, and advocated temperance principles.
His Life was written by Alfred Baker (1908) and (1902) by his brother, Benn Pitman (1822- 1911).
72.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PI/PITMAN_SIR_ISAAC.htm   (404 words)

  
 Wotton-under-Edge Sir Isaac Pitman was born in Trowbridge, Wiltshire Head Master of the British School Wotton-under-Edge
It was in the year 1837 that the schoolmaster, later to become Sir Isaac Pitman, introduced his system of 'stenographic sound hand'.
A little later, quietly and without advertisement, the Pitman system was introduced to the world, and today it is the most widely used of all the systems of shorthand.
Pitman lived to see the spread of his gospel throughout the land.
www.cotswoldedge.org.uk /w-u-e/isaac/ipitman.htm   (532 words)

  
 Shorthand   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Although Pitman's method was extremely popular at first (and is still commonly used) its popularity has been superseded by a method developed by John Robert Gregg in 1888.
Gregg's system, like Pitman's, is phonetic, but has the advantage of being "light-line." While Pitman's system uses thick and thin strokes to distinguish related sounds, Gregg's uses only thin strokes and makes some of the same distinctions by the length of the stroke.
Pitman and Gregg are both examples of symbol shorthand systems, which are completely new written representations for English.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Shorthand.html   (740 words)

  
 Isaac Pitman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Sir Isaac Pitman (January 4 1813 - 1897) knighted in 1894 developed the most widely used system shorthand known now as Pitman Shorthand.
Pitman was a qualified teacher and at a private school he founded in Wotton-under-Edge.
Isaac Pitman is the grandfather of Sir Pitman famous for developing the Initial Teaching Alphabet.
www.freeglossary.com /Isaac_Pitman   (172 words)

  
 tags --> University Archives - University of Bath pages</u>   <i>(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)</i></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Pitman's</b> phonography or 'writing by sound', still used in offices today, was commercially successful as well as widely popular and internationally renowned. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The papers of Sir <b>Isaac</b> <b>Pitman</b> were deposited with the University of Bath Library in the early 1970s by Sir (<b>Isaac</b>) James <b>Pitman</b>. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Sir James <b>Pitman</b> was Pro-Chancellor of the University of Bath between 1972 and 1981.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.bath.ac.uk /library/collections/archives/special.html</font>   (956 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td>  </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><u>Pitman, Sir Isaac - HighBeam Encyclopedia</u>   <i>(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)</i></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>PITMAN</b>, SIR <b>ISAAC</b> <b>[Pitman</b>, Sir <b>Isaac]</b> 1813-97, English inventor of phonographic shorthand. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The <b>Pitman</b> system was introduced to the United States through Stephen P. Andrews and Sir <b>Isaac's</b> brother, Benn <b>Pitman</b>, 1822-1910, who emigrated to the United States in 1852 and created in Cincinnati the Phonographic Institute to teach and publish works on shorthand. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> He taught wood carving at the Cincinnati Art Academy, invented (1855) an electrochemical process of relief engraving, and wrote a biography of his brother (1902).</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.encyclopedia.com /html/P/Pitman-S1.asp</font>   (255 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td>  </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.nominet.org.uk/disputes/courtcases/pitman">Pitman</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The continued use of the <b>Pitman</b> style, the <b>Pitman</b> name, for trading purposes by each of these purchasers of parts of the previous <b>Pitman</b> business was regulated by an agreement to which <b>Pitman</b> Training Ltd. and, as I understand it, the predecessors of Pearson Professional Ltd. were parties. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> In the present case it is alleged that <b>Pitman</b> Publishing committed the tort of abuse of process in threatening by Willoughby and Partners' letter of 27th March 1997 to sue Nominet if Nominet did not restore to <b>Pitman</b> Publishing the domain name 'pitman.co.uk'. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The letter alleged that <b>Pitman</b> Publishing was entitled to have the domain name restored to it because it had been the applicant first in time and according to the Nominet rules the first in time was to have priority.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.nominet.org.uk /disputes/courtcases/pitman</font>   (7084 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td>  </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><u>tags --> <title>New acquistion for the Pitman Collection - Library News - Library and Learning Centre - University of ...</u>   <i>(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)</i></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The Library and Learning Centre is pleased to announce the purchase of one of Sir <b>Isaac</b> <b>Pitman’s</b> letter books which was part of a large collection of furniture, china, books and other household contents put up for auction by members of the <b>Pitman</b> family based in Wiltshire. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Born in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, in 1813, <b>Isaac</b> <b>Pitman</b> trained and worked as a teacher, but is best known for the invention of a 'stenographic system of shorthand'. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Pitman</b> was an energetic advocate of spelling reform and a keen supporter of New Church doctrines.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.bath.ac.uk /library/news/pitman.html</font>   (461 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td>  </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://ca.encarta.msn.com/pitman.html">pitman - Search Results - MSN Encarta</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Pitman</b>, Benjamin (1822-1910), British author, phonographer, and inventor. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Pitman</b> was born in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, a younger brother of... </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> He devised a system of shorthand based on phonetic rather than orthographic principles; adapted...</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>ca.encarta.msn.com /pitman.html</font>   (83 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td>  </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.surratt.org/documents/dpitman.html">Surratt House Museum/Lincoln Assassination/John Wilkes Booth</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Benn <b>Pitman</b>, brother of Sir <b>Isaac</b> <b>Pitman</b> (1813-97), the inventor of the <b>Pitman</b> stenographic system, or phonetic shorthand, and himself an inventor of a shorthand system modeled after that of his cousin, was chief of the team of five stenographic reporters who recorded the trial of the Lincoln assassination conspirators. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Pitman</b> applied to, and was commissioned by, the War Department to compile, at his own expense, trial testimony, documents introduced in evidence, the discussion of points of law raised during the trial, the addresses of the counsel for the accused, the reply of the Special Judge Advocate, and the findings and sentences of the Commission. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Pitman's</b> one-volume work, published in 1865 in <b>Pitman's</b> home town of Cincinnati by publishers Moore, Wilstach and Baldwin, summarizes the testimony given at the Conspiracy Trial in narrative form, and arranges the testimony in a logical framework relating to the prosecution and defense of each defendant.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.surratt.org /documents/dpitman.html</font>   (769 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td>  </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.pitmantrainingscotland.co.uk/shorthand.asp">Shorthand</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Pitman</b> shorthand was invented 160 years ago by Sir <b>Isaac</b> <b>Pitman</b> Training Centre. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> It started with the traditional <b>Pitman</b> New Era shorthand, then <b>Pitman</b> 2000 was developed (a streamlined version of <b>Pitman</b> 2000). </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Isaac</b> <b>Pitman</b> published the first edition of his shorthand system in 1837.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.pitmantrainingscotland.co.uk /shorthand.asp</font>   (390 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td>  </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.cincinnati.com/cam/cincinnatiwing/pitman.html">Cincinnati Art Museum: The Cincinnati Wing</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Benn <b>Pitman</b>, an expatriated Englishman, arrived in Cincinnati from Philadelphia in 1853. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Pitman</b> embraced the Aesthetic Movement and turned to nature for inspiration. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> In 1872, carved furniture, doors and baseboards made by the <b>Pitman</b> family, including his wife, Jane, and daughter Agnes, were exhibited at the Third Cincinnati Industrial Exposition.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.cincinnati.com /cam/cincinnatiwing/pitman.html</font>   (245 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td>  </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitman">Pitman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Pitman</b>, New Jersey, a place in the State of New Jersey in the United States of America </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> E.J.G. <b>Pitman</b>, a statistician noted for the Pitman-Koopman-Darmois theorem concerning exponential families of probability distributions </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> James <b>Pitman</b>, inventor of the Initial Teaching Alphabet</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pitman</font>   (119 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td>  </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.hindu.com/2004/03/31/stories/2004033100622400.htm">The Hindu : Pitman's descendant, in long hand</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> For Christopher Miller, the great grandson of Sir <b>Isaac</b> <b>Pitman</b> (1813-1897) who developed the <b>Pitman's</b> system of shorthand in 1837, "it is an unusual situation" in India. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Pitman's</b> invention can be used to transcribe speech from any language since it is phonetic. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>"Pitman</b> was a teetotaller, a vegetarian and a non-smoker," said Mr.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.hindu.com /2004/03/31/stories/2004033100622400.htm</font>   (333 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td>  </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.isbn.pl/A-Reed-Thomas-Allen">Reed Thomas Allen - new and used books</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> One is the Memorial Addresses etc for <b>Isaac</b> <b>Pitman's</b> funeral, 3rd February 1897; the other items are a circular from the Bath Phoenetic Institute, and a single leaf, dated 1886, in shorthand, not intelligible to me. The pieces of ephemera are much scarcer than the book itself. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Pitman</b> was born at Trowbridge, started a school at Wotton-under-Edge and eventually moved his business to Bath. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Isaac</b> <b>Pitman</b> & Sons, London, 1888 Printed in the reporting style of phonography, <b>Isaac</b> <b>Pitman</b> & Sons, London, 1888, soft cover, 6.5 inches by 4 wide, 189 pages plus 8 pages of ads for books, fl and white frontispiece engraving of author.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.isbn.pl /A-Reed-Thomas-Allen</font>   (1186 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td>  </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/cd-focus/cdfocus-tutorial/how-to/examples/pitman/intro.html">CD Focus Tutorial | The Pitman Collection</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The <b>Pitman</b> Collection [Title] is based on the library of Sir <b>Isaac</b> <b>Pitman</b> [Name] and [Collector Name], the inventor of the shorthand [Concept] system. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> It was formerly housed with the <b>Pitman</b> Publishing House in London, and then transferred in 1970 to Bath University [Custodial history] and [Owner name] as a gift from the <b>Pitman</b> family, notably Sir James <b>Pitman</b> [Name], grandson of Sir <b>Isaac</b>, and formerly a Bath M.P. and a Pro-Chancellor of the University. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> This is mainly the private library of <b>Isaac</b> <b>Pitman</b>, the Bathonian inventor of <b>Pitman's</b> shorthand, and his grandson James.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.ukoln.ac.uk /cd-focus/cdfocus-tutorial/how-to/examples/pitman/intro.html</font>   (303 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td>  </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><u>Trowbridge 4</u>   <i>(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)</i></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The one major exception is Sir <b>Isaac</b> <b>Pitman</b>, born here in 1813. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> In 1837, <b>Pitman</b> published his "Stenographic Shorthand", later known as "Phonography", finally known, simply, as <b>Pitman's</b> shorthand. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Pitman's</b> shorthand was the word processor of the nineteenth century - and most of the twentieth as well.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.strum.co.uk /twilight/pitman.htm</font>   (205 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td>  </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><u>Catalogue of the Pocknell Collection of shorthand books in Exeter Central Library</u>   <i>(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)</i></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Isaac</b> <b>Pitman</b>, the members of the Phonetic Society and phonographers generally. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Pitman's</b> shorthand instructor: A complete exposition of Sir <b>Isaac</b> <b>Pitman's</b> system of phonography. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Pitman's</b> shorthand reporter (being part 2 of <b>Pitman's</b> shorthand instructor)...</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.devon.gov.uk /etched?_IXP_=1&_IXR=100309</font>   (4055 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td>  </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.science.org.au/academy/memoirs/pitman2.htm">AAS-Biographical memoirs-Michael Pitman</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The <b>Pitmans</b> were a prolific West England family with Sir <b>Isaac</b> <b>Pitman</b>, the inventor of shorthand the most famous member. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> It was decided that Mrs <b>Pitman</b> and the two boys should go to the relative safety of the Somerset village of East Harptree, situated on the northern slopes of the Mendip hills, south of Bristol. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Pitman</b>, Läuchli and Lüttge generated a flow of publications over the subsequent 5 years that changed the way we think about ion uptake in roots (14, 15, 17, 20, 22, 25, 30).</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.science.org.au /academy/memoirs/pitman2.htm</font>   (7756 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td>  </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Phonetic-alphabet">NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Phonetic alphabet</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> UNIFON [[1]] is a phonemic alphabet developed by John R. Malone in the early 1950s on a contract from the Bendix Corporation. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Sir James <b>Pitman</b> (the grandson of Sir <b>Isaac</b> <b>Pitman</b>) inventor of the Initial Teaching Alphabet. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The Initial Teaching Alphabet was developed by Sir James <b>Pitman</b> (the grandson of Sir <b>Isaac</b> <b>Pitman</b>, the inventor of a system of shorthand, who himself took up the issue of spelling reform with a variant typeface) as a tool for teaching children to read English.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Phonetic-alphabet</font>   (1210 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td>  </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><u>What is Pitman Shorthand?</u>   <i>(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)</i></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Sir <b>Isaac</b> <b>Pitman</b> (1813-1897) of England developed a system of shorthand and first presented it in 1837, which was gradually perfected and adapted for 15 languages. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Although it was not the only shorthand system in use, it did present a number of strengths which made it vastly popular and was learned by a wide audience of writers, office secretaries and newspaper, court and governmental reporters. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The thick stroke (represents the sound of "th" as in the words "though" and "they"/"them" and is likewise used as the short form for those words as well.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.crazycolour.com /os/writing_06.shtml</font>   (630 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td>  </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.omniglot.com/writing/ita.htm">Pitman Initial Teaching Alphabet (i.t.a.)</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The <b>Pitman</b> Initial Teaching Alphabet (i.t.a.) was invented by Sir James <b>Pitman</b>, grandson of the inventor of <b>Pitman</b> shorthand. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> It was first used in a number of British school in 1961 and soon spread to the USA and Australia. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Benjamin Franklin's Phonetic Alphabet, Dialectal Paleotype, International Phonetic Alphabet, <b>Pitman</b> Initial Teaching Alphabet, Unifon, Visible Speech</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.omniglot.com /writing/ita.htm</font>   (210 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><script language="JavaScript"> <!-- // This function displays the ad results. // It must be defined above the script that calls show_ads.js // to guarantee that it is defined when show_ads.js makes the call-back. function google_ad_request_done(google_ads) { // Proceed only if we have ads to display! 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