He became a journalist and an advocate of Phonography.
"A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations"
Joseph Mazzini Wheeler
They all know the digital sign language; but German and Phonography classed him as one above the ordinary.
"Ashton-Kirk, Investigator"
John T. McIntyre
He had been taken by Pitman's then new Phonography, and his chief occupation at that time was teaching it wherever at any school he could form a class.
"The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I"
William James Stillman