slating ’s always enjoyable Explainer dissects Stenotype machines , those anachronic typewriters used by official court reporters to record the proceedings . Who recognize each stenographer had their own secret shorthand ?
How does it work ? courtyard amanuensis can typewrite integral word all at once by walk out multiple headstone at the same time . The left manus spells out the beginning of a syllable , while the correct hand spells out the end ; all keys are press at the same fourth dimension , and the machine produces an first principle soup that ’s incomprehensible to anyone who ’s not trained in machine shorthand .
What ’s That Thingy Court Reporters Type On?[Slate ]
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