[GreenKeys] Fwd: Newbie question on piece of gear.

[Duncan Brown]

Jim,

Thanks for the article by Gordon White on MITE history. I had not seen 
it before.

But I don't agree with his comment that "Mite was a sewing bobbin 
company that went into the teleprinter business.."   The Western Union 
Technical Review, April 1958, article you included shows the original 
company name was "Teleprinter Corporation" (of Paramus, NJ) and that WU 
was interested in the design as a competitor to the Teletype Corp. M28.  
(There is some indication that WU helped finance the company.)

Teleprinter _merged_ with Greist Manufacturing Co. of New Haven, CT on 7 
March 1961. Greist Manufacturing was a metalworking company that made 
everything from measuring gauges to sewing machine attachments, straight 
razors, and anti-aircraft guns.

have fun,

Duncan
K2OEQ





-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: 	Re: [GreenKeys] Newbie question on piece of gear.
Date: 	Thu, 23 Mar 2023 16:39:50 -0500 (CDT)
From: 	Jim Haynes <jhhaynes at earthlink.net>
To: 	Duncan Brown <duncanancy at earthlink.net>



G.E. White column on things including the MITE attached
WUTR article attached, includes the only biographical information on
Bernard Howard that I have ever seen. Seems strange that this guy
we never heard of could design a successful teleprinter.

Name change from Teleprinter Corp. to MITE Corp. seems to have taken place
in 1961, as that year there were patents assigned to both company names.

All the patents relating to teleprinters were issued to one Bernard Howard.
Patents started issuing in 1955. After the name change other individuals
started getting patents on sewing machines and assigning them to MITE
Corp. This suggests a merger or buyout by an established sewing machine
company. Patents to Howard continued to at least 1967.

Now there's the AN/UGC-29 teleprinter made by Tracor. There were two
models of it, the earlier one using a type element very similar to that
of MITE, but using stepping motors instead of all that mechanism to
position everything. The later one used dot matrix printing and stepping
motors.

---

"Ya can argue all ya wanna, but it's dif'rent than it was."
"No it ain't! No it ain't! But ya gotta know the territory."
Meredith Willson, The Music Man
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