Melville Bell’s Steno-Phonography?

Anything GoesCarlos7 August 20071

Anyone know anything about Melville Bell’s Steno-Phonography?

Evidently popular among linguists of the 19th century.

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Lee 23 November 2025 at 4:19 am on Types of notebooksThat's amazing detective work! Lots of glimpses into a world that doesn't exist any more. I had to look up
Erik 22 November 2025 at 9:14 pm on Types of notebooksThere is also this snippet from 1849 Reporter's Companion (Pitman's system) https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hnyx7a&seq=19 which suggests from the method of page turning
Erik 22 November 2025 at 8:51 pm on Types of notebooksAh interesting. My memory is once again spotty but IIRC correctly OP had claimed to be associated with some sort
Lee 22 November 2025 at 7:15 pm on Types of notebooksThat's the same image that someone asked about in the "Shorthand Writing" Facebook group. I don't think it's authentically from
Carlos 22 November 2025 at 2:59 pm on Types of notebooksNo worries, Erik. I edited the post. Images can only be embedded in comments by using links.
Erik 22 November 2025 at 1:06 pm on Types of notebooksHmm, it seems like I messed up the embedding and I can't figure out how to edit a post. Direct
Erik 22 November 2025 at 1:02 pm on Types of notebooksIf the Internet is to be believed, spiral bound notebooks like the standard steno pad didn’t appear until the 1920s
Carlos 20 November 2025 at 4:31 pm on Types of notebooksThat would make sense.
Carlos 19 November 2025 at 3:43 pm on John Inglefield’s ThanksgivingYou're welcome!
Nicholas Salkilld 19 November 2025 at 3:18 pm on John Inglefield’s ThanksgivingThanks Carlos. (I'd forgotten that people could be very strict and "moral" in earlier times.)
Carlos 19 November 2025 at 12:56 pm on John Inglefield’s ThanksgivingThanks for the corrections. Prudence worked in the theater, and that was not considered a very reputable occupation for a
Nicholas Salkilld 19 November 2025 at 7:38 am on John Inglefield’s ThanksgivingInteresting. The nature of Prudence's badness was not explained but I think that being part of a theatre is not
Lee 19 November 2025 at 4:02 am on Types of notebooksI did a couple of Ebay searches for "antique reporter's notebook" and "antique stenographer's notebook" and a few things showed
Lee 18 November 2025 at 9:51 am on Types of notebooksI've read through lots of old issues of The Gregg Writer over the years, and don't recall any discussions about