REMARKABLE SHORTHAND FEAT
THE “Jewish Chronicle" draws attention to a remarkable feat recently performed by Mr Maurice J.‘ Myers, a blind stenographer, who reported all the discussions at the Conference on the Treatment of the Blind held last month at Exeter. Mr Myers’s notes, which were recorded bri a narrow strip of paper, extended to a length of two and a quarter miles, and contained approximately 800,000 diets. This clever shorthand writer, who can take notes at a speed of 158 words a minute, helped to formulate “the Birmingham system -of embossed shorthand." He was trained at Birmingham Royal Institution for the Blind.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7979, 9 December 1911, Page 13
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103REMARKABLE SHORTHAND FEAT New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7979, 9 December 1911, Page 13
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