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.
Pitman shorthand, sometimes called phonography, a system of shorthand stenography developed by Isaac Pitman
The protagonist of David R. Palmer's novels 'Emergence' and 'Tracking' purportedly writes her journals in Pitman Shorthand, declaring it the "best, potentially fastest, most versatile of various pen systems".
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Pitman's brother Benjamin Pitman settled in Cincinnati, Ohio in the United States, and introduced Pitman's system there.
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Pitman was the son of Ernest Pitman and grandson of Sir Isaac Pitman, who developed the most widely used system of shorthand, known now as Pitman Shorthand.
He also knew Henry Sweet, creator of Current Shorthand (and a prototype for the character of Henry Higgins), although Shaw himself used the shorthand system of Isaac Pitman.