phonography

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The recording, part of Capitol's new import of Russian phonography, is disappointing.

From Time Magazine Archive

The system of short-hand practised by the vast majority of writers, both in this country and in England, is phonography, invented by Isaac Pitman, of Bath, England, in 1837.

From Work for Women by Manson, George J.

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 Davies, Ebenezer

All that has been said and written against the custom will do less towards abolishing it than the recent introduction of lessons in phonography, or stenography rather, which is now taught in several universities.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 by Various

For this phonography really amounts to a study of the cheapest way of spelling words.

From Certain Personal Matters by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)