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When a prosecutor asked Freeman, who testified Tuesday under an immunity agreement, why it took him nearly two decades to turn over to police that and other recordings of child phonography tied to Kelly, Freeman responded: “Because the police wasn’t going to pay me a million dollars.”

“Phonography will probably be the destruction of printing,” said the narrator of “The End of Books,” a story published in Scribner’s Magazine in 1894.

Irish-born Robert Gregg was 18 when he invented his own phonetic system, Light-Line Phonography, in the 1880s, which gradually supplanted Pitman in the US.

“Listen at what Irene’s telling you, Claude. And watch out you don’t step on my poor little niece’s phonography.”

Else what avail magnetic telegraphs, steamers, and rail-cars traversing every rood of land and ocean, phonography and the mingling of all literatures, till North embraces South and Denmark lays her head upon the lap of Italy?