Pitman, Sir Isaac, inventor of the shorthand system which bears his name, born at Trowbridge, Wiltshire; his first publication was “Stenographic Sound-Hand” in 1837, and in 1842 he started the Phonetic Journal, and lectured extensively as well as published in connection with his system (1813‒1897).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Pithom * Pitrè, Giuseppe