

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Google Sans&quot;, sans-serif;">Product Description</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Google Sans&quot;, sans-serif;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Google Sans&quot;, sans-serif;">Pitman
 Shorthand has been briefly defined as "the art of representing spoken 
sounds by character; a system of shorthand". The system of shorthand was
 invented by Sir Issac Pitman, who in 1837 published his first treatise 
on the art. No other system of shorthand designed for the English 
language has been subjected to tests so prolonged, so diverse, and so 
severe as those which Pitman Shorthand ? as the system is now generally 
styled? has undergone since its introduction, with the result that it 
has been most successfully adapted to the practical requirements of all 
classes of shorthand writers.<br><br><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Google Sans&quot;, sans-serif;">About the Author</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Google Sans&quot;, sans-serif;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Google Sans&quot;, sans-serif;">Isaac Pitman</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Google Sans&quot;, sans-serif;">&nbsp;was
 born on January 4, 1813, in Trowbridge, Wiltshire in England. He was a 
British photographer, famous for developing the most widely used system 
of shorthand, known now as Pitman Shorthand. He developed the Pitman 
Shorthand system to be simpler and more practical than the one already 
in existence.</span></p>

