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Stenography1, or phonography (as it was often called) – taking dictation by shorthand and later transcribing it – seems to have played only a limited role in business before the typewriter.

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Stenography1, or phonography (as it was often called) – taking dictation by shorthand and later transcribing it – seems to have played only a limited role in business before the typewriter.

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