phonography

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The recording, part of Capitol's new import of Russian phonography, is disappointing.

From Time Magazine Archive

The system of short-hand practised by the vast majority of writers, both in this country and in England, is phonography, invented by Isaac Pitman, of Bath, England, in 1837.

From Work for Women by Manson, George J.

For words are not mere sounds, and in their orthography more is implied than in phonetics, or phonography.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

The trouble is, however, that many of the so-called teachers of phonography have never done any actual reporting in their lives, and their advice and suggestions are not of much value.

From Work for Women by Manson, George J.

He had been taken by Pitman's then new phonography, and his chief occupation at that time was teaching it wherever at any school he could form a class.

From The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I by Stillman, William James