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The New International Encyclopædia/Munson, James Eugene

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Edition of 1905. See also James Eugene Munson on Wikipedia; and the disclaimer.

1346791The New International Encyclopædia — Munson, James Eugene

MUNSON, mûn'son, James Eugene (1835—). An American inventor, born at Paris, Oneida County, N. Y. He studied for a time at Amherst, then removed to New York City, where he became a court stenographer, a position which he held for more than thirty years. He formulated the Munson system of stenography, an automatic typesetting machine, and a mechanism of operating typewriting machines by telegraph, and published a number of books of phonography.