Gregg shorthand
Taquigrafía de Gregg
- Date
- 1888 · confidence high
- Place
- Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
- Credited to
- John Robert Gregg
- People
- 👤 John Robert Gregg1867–1948
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
A phonetic system of curved, joined strokes with no change of thickness, published as Light-Line Phonography. It became the dominant system in the United States.
Gregg published it in Liverpool and emigrated to the United States in 1893.
What it led to
- 20th-century secretarial and office work
- adaptations to other languages
- replaced by voice recorders