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Teletype teleprinters in use in England during World War II Example of teleprinter art: a portrait of Dag Hammarskjöld, 1962. A teleprinter (teletypewriter, teletype or TTY) is an electromechanical device that can be used to send and receive typed messages through various communications channels, in both point-to-point and point-to-multipoint configurations.
Charles Lyon Krum (1851/2 – September 25, 1937) [1] was a key figure in the development of the teleprinter, a machine which played a key role in the history of telegraphy and computing. [ 2 ] In 1902, electrical engineer Mr. Frank Pearne approached Mr. Joy Morton , head of Morton Salt , seeking a sponsor for Pearne's research into the ...
Teletype Model 33 ASR teleprinter keyboard with punched tape reader and punch. The left-front unit is the tape reader with its three-position START/STOP/FREE lever in the STOP position. A less-common tape reader had a four-position START/AUTO/STOP/FREE lever. In the AUTO position it could be commanded on and off remotely.
Teleprinter or teletypewriter (TTY), an electromechanical typewriter paired with a communication channel Sometimes used more generally for any type of computer terminal. May also be used to refer to a virtual console in Unix-like operating systems
Donald Murray (20 September 1865– 14 July 1945) was an electrical engineer and the inventor of a telegraphic typewriter system using an extended Baudot code that was a direct ancestor of the teleprinter (teletype machine). He can justifiably be called the "Father of the remote Typewriter".
The Teletype Inktronic Terminal is an electronic, high-speed teleprinter that uses electrostatic deflection to print characters at 1200 words-per-minute. The Inktronic terminal prints an 80 column page using forty jets to print 63 alphanumeric characters in two columns on an 8.5 inch roll of paper.
A Baudot keyboard, 1884 A Creed Model 7 teleprinter, 1931. A teleprinter is a telegraph machine that can send messages from a typewriter-like keyboard and print incoming messages in readable text with no need for the operators to be trained in the telegraph code used on the line.
Teletype Corporation's Model 28 line of communications terminals was first delivered to the US Military in 1951 [1] and commercially introduced in 1953. This series of teleprinters and associated equipment was popular in the various branches of the United States Armed Forces, and commercially in the financial and manufacturing industries.