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PITMAN . See also:SIR See also:ISAAC (1813--1897), See also:English phonographer, was See also:born at See also:Trowbridge, See also:Wiltshire, on the 4th of See also:January 1813, and was educated at the See also:local See also:grammar school. He started in See also:life as a clerk in a See also:cloth factory, but in 1831 he was sent to the Normal See also:College of the See also:British and See also:Foreign School Society in See also:London. Between 1832 and 1839 he held masterships at See also:Barton-on-See also:Humber and See also:Wotton-under-Edge, but he was dismissed by the authorities when he became a Swedenborgian, and from 1839 to 1843 he conducted a private school of his own at See also:Bath. In 1829 he took up See also:Samuel See also:- TAYLOR
- TAYLOR, ANN (1782-1866)
- TAYLOR, BAYARD (1825–1878)
- TAYLOR, BROOK (1685–1731)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1787-1865)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1829-1901)
- TAYLOR, JEREMY (1613-1667)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (158o-1653)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (1704-1766)
- TAYLOR, JOSEPH (c. 1586-c. 1653)
- TAYLOR, MICHAEL ANGELO (1757–1834)
- TAYLOR, NATHANIEL WILLIAM (1786-1858)
- TAYLOR, PHILIP MEADOWS (1808–1876)
- TAYLOR, ROWLAND (d. 1555)
- TAYLOR, SIR HENRY (1800-1886)
- TAYLOR, THOMAS (1758-1835)
- TAYLOR, TOM (1817-1880)
- TAYLOR, WILLIAM (1765-1836)
- TAYLOR, ZACHARY (1784-1850)
Taylor's See also:system of See also:short-See also:hand, and from that See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he became an enthusiast in developing the See also:art of phonography. In 1837 he See also:drew up a See also:manual of Taylor's system and offered it to Samuel Bagster (1771-1852). The publisher did not accept the See also:work, but suggested that Pitman should invent a new system (see SHORTHAND) of his own. The result was his Stenographic Soundhand (1837). Bagster's friendship and active help had been secured by See also:- PIT (O. E. pytt, cognate with Du. put, Ger. Pfutze, &c., all ultimately adaptations of Lat. puteus, well, formed from root pu-, to cleanse, whence gurus, clean, pure)
Pit-See also:man's undertaking to verify the See also:half-million references in the Comprehensive See also:Bible, and he published the inventor's books at a cheap See also:rate, thus helping to bring the system within the reach of all. Pitman devoted himself to perfecting phonography and propagating its use, and established at Bath a Phonetic See also:Institute and a Phonetic See also:Journal for this purpose; he printed in shorthand a number of See also:standard See also:works, and his See also:book with the See also:title Phonography (1840) went through many See also:editions. He was an enthusiastic spelling reformer, and adopted a phonetic system which he tried to bring into See also:general use. Pitman was twice married, his first wife dying in 1857, and his second, whom he married in 1861, surviving him. In 1894 he was knighted, and on the 22nd of January 1897 he died at Bath. Sir Isaac Pitman popularized shorthand at a time when the advance of the newspaper See also:press and See also:modern business methods were making it a See also:matter of See also:great commercial importance. His system adapted itself readily to the needs of journalism, and its use revolutionized the work of See also:reporting. He was a non-smoker, a vegetarian, and advocated See also:temperance principles.
His Life was written by See also:Alfred See also:Baker (19-:8) and (1902) by his See also:brother, Benn Pitman (1822–7911).
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