Robert Boyd (10 April 1870 - Unknown), of

Russell, Ontario The Township of Russell is a municipal township, located south-east of Canada's capital of Ottawa in eastern Ontario, in the United Counties of Prescott and Russell, on the Castor River. The township had a population of 16,520 in the 2016 Cana ...

, Canada, was the inventor of a system of

shorthand Shorthand is an abbreviated symbolic writing method that increases speed and brevity of writing as compared to longhand, a more common method of writing a language. The process of writing in shorthand is called stenography, from the Greek ''ste ...

, Boyd's Syllabic Shorthand. The system was first published in 1903, with a later publication in 1912.

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1870 births Year of death missing Creators of writing systems People from Russell, Ontario {{Canada-engineer-stub