phonography
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The recording, part of Capitol's new import of Russian phonography, is disappointing.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some of the above substitutions are perhaps natural enough, in consequence of the fact of extra sounds, having no special characters for them in the alphabet, which was phonography for the Latin language only.
From Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class and Moral Culture of Infancy. by Mary E. Mann
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 William James Stillman
Not having learned phonography, I can give you no adequate notion of it; but it was a combination of the owl's screech and the pig's scream.
From American Scenes, and Christian Slavery A Recent Tour of Four Thousand Miles in the United States by Ebenezer Davies
A public teacher of Pitman’s phonography had established himself in Derby, and the Midland engaged him to conduct classes for the junior clerks.
From Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland by Joseph Tatlow
