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Court Reporting

By HaileyHuettl
  • Feb 25, 1000

    Originated

    Court reporting originated in 63 B.C.
  • Feb 26, 1180

    First Group

    In 1180, a monk named John of Tilbury created the first shorthand system for English speakers (A.K.A courtreporters)

  • First system

    In 1602, John Willis published a shorthand system based on the English alphabet, rather than symbols

  • Big help in making the stenograph useful

    When the Connecticut legislature passed a law in 1785 requiring judges to prepare their decisions in writing, Kirby had already begun his own compilation for private use

  • Improvments

    George Kerr Anderson developed the first stenotype that allowed 2 or more keys to be used at once

  • Phonetics

    In 1837, Isaac Pitman created a shorthand system based on phonetics (the science or study of speech sounds and their production, transmission, and reception, and their analysis, classification, and transcription.)

  • Stenograph

    Stenograph
    Miles Bartholomew invented the first Stenograph (typing) machine, which they use to type court hearings word for word.

  • Improvements

    Improvements were later made to
    the machine and patents were obtained for it in 1879 and
    1884.

  • Contests

    The efficiency of the
    machine was proven at the 1914 National Shorthand
    Reporters Association speed contest in which nine
    machine shorthand trained teenagers consistently won
    against 30 seasoned professional pen writers with up to
    99.30 percent accuracy.

  • Known hearings

    Court reporters were
    present at such famous trials as the Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping in 1935

  • IBM

    In the 1950s, IBM partnered with the US military to create stenotype machines where typed words and even symbols could be translated into many different languages.

  • Known hearing

    A stenographer took notes during President Kennedy’s
    news conference at the State Department
    Auditorium in Washington D.C. on
    September 12, 1963.

  • Use of a stenograph

    President Carter was reported during an interview with
    New York Times reporter Scotty Reston in
    the White House on December 1, 1977.

  • Stenturas

    Since 1992, more than 50,000 Stenturas
    have been sold to court reporters around the world. Provides instantanious real time translations.

  • Partnerships

    In the 1950s, IBM partnered with the US military to create stenotype machines where typed words and even symbols could be translated into many different languages