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Yes. Well-put and thank you.
I have stenography on my mind as I write my cultural history of the Linotype. I am ever-more enchanted by James. O. Clephane, the stenographer who was Mergenthaler's muse. Thus I'm digging into the trade's role in newspapers of the time. (Recently I learned that "phonographer" was a synonym for "stenographer" and thus the root of "phonograph" ... and Clephane was also a director of what became CBS Records.) I could go on....
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