Palmer Method returning to a more cursive style. The Palmer company stopped publishing in the 1980s. In radar engineering, a Palmer Scan is a scanning technique that produces a scanning beam by moving the main antenna and its feed in a circular motion. The name was derived from the looping circles practiced by students of the Palmer Method. Palmer Method The Palmer Method of penmanship instruction was developed and promoted by Austin Palmer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was largely created as a simplified style of the "Spencerian Method", which had been the major standardized system of handwriting
James A. Palmer James A. Palmer James A. Palmer, who signed his work J. A. Palmer (1825–June 1896), was an Irish-American photographer who produced thousands of stereographs about life in Aiken, South Carolina and Georgia. Palmer was born in Ireland and he moved with his family and settled in Rochester, New York when he was young. Palmer and his wife, Mary E. Palmer, had two sons, Charles born in 1861 in Illinois and Thomas born October 1869 in Georgia. During the Civil War, he served in Company F of the 99th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment and his residence was Perry, Pike County, Illinois.