Excerpt from Report Made to the Board of Controllers of Public Schools of the First School District of Pennsylvania: On the Subject of Phonography, by a Special Committee Appointed for That Purpose; Read April 11th, 1854, and With the Accompanying Documents, Ordered to Be Printed The high position occupied by the Board of Controllers in relation to the cause of education, makes it peculiarly desirable, that this subject should receive at their hands a patient and thorough examination. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.