The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Munson, James Eugene

MUNSON, James Eugene, American inventor: b. Paris, N. Y., 12 May 1825; d. 1906. He was educated at Amherst College and in 1857 removed to New York, where he was court stenographer for 30 years. He invented the &ldquo;Munson System&rdquo; of shorthand, a machine for operating the typewriter by telegraph and a type-setting machine. He published &lsquo;The Complete Phonographer&rsquo; (1866); &lsquo;Dictionary of Practical Phonography&rsquo; (1874; 2d ed. 1906); &lsquo;The Phrase-Book of Practical Phonography&rsquo; (1889); &lsquo;A Shorter Course in Munson Phonography&rsquo; (1901; 2d ed. 1912) ; &lsquo;Phonographic Dictation Book&rsquo; (1904), etc.