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3 unusual facts about Oliver Dyer


Oliver Dyer

Dyer later travelled to Washington, D.C. to record sessions of 30th Congress as its first shorthand reporter.

During this time, he became interested in phonography, a popular type of shorthand system then being used in Great Britain, and soon developed his own system.

It was used not only for courtroom testimony but also for recording political events such as the Free Soil Convention in Buffalo, New York, and sessions of the 30th United States Congress in Washington, D.C., in 1848.



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