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 IsaacPitman 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.
SIR ISAACPITMAN (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.
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