[GreenKeys] History of Radioteletype?

[wa2hwj at att.net]

As I continue to go back further in time in my RTTY gear collecting, I have begun to wonder when "radioteletype" first came into use. If the Teletype as we know it was being used in the 1930's, when was it married to the radio? Would it be safe to assume that AT&T (remember that company?), RCA, ITT, or some similar organization got it started?
I do know that RTTY was a valid communications medium during WW II, but, again, it is not clear how much it was used. The AN/FGC-1 seems to be a very early RTTY terminal (Western Electric) and possibly the oldest I have any knowledge of. From various manuals on the unit, it seems to have appeared on the scene in the early 1950's. That's when the Model 28 started to be used by the Navy, incidentally. Another interesting TU is the CV-62/U, made by RFL in the 1950's. It's a very simple, almost Ham-like, unit with selectable shifts and a cross tuning scope, weighing in at a modest Cold War-designed 60 lbs. It covers from 200 to 800 HZ shifts and does not have any tone generating circuitry for transmitting. The AN/GRC-26 was a mobile RTTY station with a BC-610 and R-388's (?), but, again, how far back does it go? I think the TU used was a CV-31. 
Recently discovered articles in the pre-RTTY Journal "ARTS Society" newletter indicate that Ham RTTY got started sometime after WW II, so Ham
RTTY seems to be as old as I am! And, Ham RTTY started in New York City, a hotbed of radio development after WW II; a West Coast effort happened soon thereafter. 
I know there are a few Greenkeyeres who have been at this RTTY stuff longer than I have and would like to get their perspective on the origins of "radioteletype" pre-WW II. Maybe we could write a book called "The Baudot Code" and knock "The DaVinci Code" off the bestseller's list!

73 to all,
Jack WA2HWJ

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