Medium description: | Elisha Coles' treatise on shorthand, "The Newest, Plainest and the Shortest Short-Hand", published. This was "the first historical survey of English shorthand, citing thirty shorthand authors and comparing fourteen alphabets" (Life, 2004).
Contained Coles' own system of shorthand. As Cole thougght the representations of monosyllables was the "great stumbling block in English shorthand, [he] advanced the innovative notion of positioning characters on, above, and below a line for great versatility" (Life, 2004) |