Sir Isaac Pitman

Sir Isaac Pitman
noun
English educator who invented a system of phonetic shorthand (1813-1897)
Syn: ↑Pitman
Instance Hypernyms: ↑educator, ↑pedagogue, ↑pedagog

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  • Isaac Pitman — Sir Isaac Pitman (n. 4 de enero de 1813 f. 12 de enero de 1897), nombrado caballero en 1894, es el inventor del quizás más usado sistema de taquigrafía, conocido como taquigrafía Pitman. Este sistema fue propuesto por él en 1837. Pitman fue un… …   Wikipedia Español

  • Isaac Pitman — Sir Isaac Pitman (January 4 1813 ndash; January 12 1897), knighted in 1894, developed the most widely used system of shorthand, known now as Pitman Shorthand. He first proposed this in Stenographic Soundhand in 1837. Pitman was a qualified… …   Wikipedia

  • Isaac Pitman — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Pitman. Isaac Pitman Sir Isaac Pitman (4 janvier 1813 22 janvier …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Pitman, Sir Isaac — ▪ English educator and inventor born Jan. 4, 1813, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, Eng. died Jan. 12, 1897, Somerset  English educator and inventor of the shorthand system named for him.       After clerking in a textile mill, Pitman entered a training… …   Universalium

  • Pitman shorthand — Infobox Writing system name = Pitman shorthand type = Borderline abugida abjad typedesc = shorthand creator=Isaac Pitman time = 1837–present languages = English children = Pitman s New Era Pitman s 2000 sample = Pitman.pngPitman shorthand is a… …   Wikipedia

  • Pitman, Gregg —    Shorthand is an old system for quickly recording speeches. Marcus Tullius Tiro invented what has come to be known as the Tironian system. Tiro was a freedman and amanuensis of Cicero. The ampersand (&), a contraction of the Latin and, is still …   Dictionary of eponyms

  • Pitman shorthand — ▪ writing system       system of rapid writing based on the sounds of words (i.e., the phonetic principle) rather than on conventional spellings. Invented by Sir Isaac Pitman (Pitman, Sir Isaac), an English educator, the Pitman shorthand method… …   Universalium

  • Pitman — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. Le nom de Pitman est porté par plusieurs personnalités (par ordre alphabétique) : Charles Robert Senhouse Pitman (1890 1975), naturaliste britannique …   Wikipédia en Français

  • PITMAN, SIR ISAAC —    inventor of the shorthand system which bears his name, born at Trowbridge, Wiltshire; his first publication was Stenographic Sound Hand in 1837, and in 1842 he started the Phonetic Journal, and lectured extensively as well as published in… …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

  • Pitman — Pitman, Sir Isaac, Erfinder des verbreitetsten englischen Stenographiesystems, geb. 4. Jan. 1813 in Trowbridge (Wiltshire), gest. 22. Jan. 1897 in Bath, war zuerst Volksschullehrer und veröffentlichte als Vorsteher des Kollegs zu Barton on Humber …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

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