Excerpt from Manual of Brachygraphy: A System of Short-Hand Writing, Founded Upon the Vowel Sounds of the English LanguageIn regard to the legibility of the old systems of short-hand, it is a fact that when a stenographer dies 'his notes are of no more use than so much waste paper, no man living being capable of reading them accurately, because of the vast number of arbitrary word-signs. A few abbreviations have been made in Brachygraphy, not because the outlines were too long, but because the abbreviated words were fully as legible as the full outline.Brachygraphy, being founded upon the vowels, is as legible as long-hand, and one stenographer can easily read another's notes, and because of its legibility, it is capable of being utilized in ordinary business transactions where speed in the transaction of business is becoming a necessity. Already the large incorporated companies of the United States are growing restless and uneasy at the inadequate means of recording their business transactions. The introduction of railroads, the invention of the electric - telegraph, the telephone, and other modern discoveries, all gave an additional impetus to busines in other directions, and it is only since the introduction of these additional facilities, that the inadequacy of the present system of writing is felt. The great railroad, mercantile, and manufacturing companies of the country, complain of the hampered condition of their business, that the wheels of com merce are being clogged by the present unwieldy mode of writing, and demand that an improvement be made in this most important means of transacting business, and some have even made the attempt to unfetter themselves by urging upon all their younger employees the necessity of studying short hand.Laborers are at work in other fields enlarging the boundaries of human knowledge, and in some departments the results are truly astonishing. Discovery after discovery has been made.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.