A stenotype is a keyboard resembling a typewriter used to grasp text in simplified phonetic form at the speed of speech. The keyboard is made up of a limited number of keys: 21 on the Grandjean model. The first stenotype was designed by French Benoît Gonod, librarian in Clermont-Ferrand, in 1827. He built a prototype and presented reports on his system in the academy of this city. In Italy, Celestino Galli in 1831, Luigi Lamonica in 1867, Isidoro Maggi in 1871 were the precursors. They designed machines and stenotypia methods, but did not have a practical application. The first in its type to be used was that created by Italian professor Antonio Michela-Zucco, invented in 1863. It was officially presented in 1878 to the Paris International Exhibition and caused great interest. As early as.
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