1813-1897. English teacher and inventor of
Pitman's shorthand. He studied Samuel
Taylor's scheme for shorthand writing, and in
1837 published his own system, Stenographic
Soundhand, fast, accurate, and adapted for
use in many languages. A simplified Pitman
Script, combining letters and signs, was
devised 1971 by Emily D Smith. His grandson
(Isaac) James Pitman (1901-85) devised the
44-letter Initial Teaching Alphabet in the
1960s to help children to read.