Gregg Pitman Speedwriting is a Website Devoted to Pen Shorthand To start with, for those of you who may not know, shorthand is a means of rapid writing. It’s main use was in business offices around the world. From approximately the 1850s through to the 1980s, most offices had shorthand writers–frequently called stenographers or secretaries…
Alternative Handwriting and Shorthand Systems for Dummies
The not complete-idiot’s guide to: Alternative Handwriting and Shorthand Systems for Dummies The not complete-idiot’s guide to Alternative Handwriting and Shorthand Systems for Dummies Introduction The letters you are now reading, while well adapted to the eye to be read, are so ill adapted to the hand to be written that schools teach longhand as…
Dacomb College
Sisters, Beatrice and Clara Dacomb established Dacomb College in 1936 as co-principals. Dacomb College taught shorthand to young women that went onto careers as secretaries and court stenographers. Dacomb College was established in the Presgrave Building, 279 Little Collins Street, Melbourne. | Map A second Dacomb College run by Mrs Jean Joy was established in…
Dacomb: The Australian Shorthand
Dacomb: The Australian Shorthand Front Cover Jean Trant Joy Dacomb College, 1962 – Shorthand – 175 pages Source: books.google.com.au
Dacomb Goes To Court
DACOMB GOES TO COURT by BOB COLEMAN The Argus: Saturday December 10, 1955 GOOD news for thousands of students and writers of Dacomb shorthand! Miss Desma Lancaster has been appointed to the staff of the official Court Reporting Branch at the Law Courts. Miss- Lancaster, 24-year-old Ascot Vale brunette, the first Dacomb writer to enter,…
List of shorthand systems
This is a list of shorthands, both modern and ancient. Currently, only one shorthand (Duployan) has been given an ISO code, in preparation for inclusion in the Unicode Standard, although the Tironian et has already been included in Unicode. Script name ISO 15924 Year created Creator Primary languages Notes Abbreviated Longhand[1] 1908 Angus Weaver English Abbreviatrix 1945 William Paul Mishkin…
Shorthand: symbolic writing method
Shorthand is an abbreviated symbolic writing method that increases speed and brevity of writing as compared to longhand, a more common method of writing a language. The process of writing in shorthand is called stenography, from the Greek stenos (narrow) and graphein (to write). It has also been called brachygraphy, from Greek brachys (short) and…
Dacomb Shorthand by B.E. & C.T. Dacomb
Dacomb shorthand / by B.E. & C.T. Dacomb ; [revised by J. Joy] Also: Dacomb, the Australian shorthand. Bib ID 920335 Format BookBook Author Dacomb, Beatrice Eliza Printer (Melbourne : Mitchell and Casey) Description Melbourne : Dacomb College, 1949 vi, 140 p. ; 18 cm. Notes Cover title: Dacomb the Australian shorthand. “Revised by J….
Dacomb Shorthand History
A short history by Good Samaritan Business College Here is some history on Dacomb shorthand: it is probably not well known that it was invented by two Melbourne sisters as an alternative to the more complicated Pitmans. Sr.Magdalen, who taught at Good Samaritan Business College, could do both Dacomb and Pitmans which is some kind…
Dacomb, Clara Thurston (1867–1946)
Dacomb, Clara Thurston (1867–1946) by Mollie Missen Beatrice Eliza Dacomb (1863-1947) and Clara Thurston Dacomb (1867-1946), co-inventors of Dacomb shorthand, were born on 22 November 1863 and 15 October 1867 at Portland, Victoria, sixth and eighth children of Edmund Dacomb, merchant, and his wife Eliza, née Evans, both English born. Beatrice matriculated with honours, taught…