[GreenKeys] MITE Corp.

[Jim Haynes]

See Western Union Technical Review 12:2 April 1958 p. 61-68

I found that Bernard Howard was the only patentee for all of that
company's patents.  You can see by his bio on p 68 that he bounced
around the aerospace industry for a time before getting into the
teleprinter business.

Later on MITE Corp. seemed to be in the sewing machine business, with
various inventors for patents connected with sewing machines.  Wonder
what ever happened to Mr. Howard.

There was also an article in the surplus column of CQ magazine back
when Gordon E. White was writing them.  March 1976 issue, where he
suggests that some political influence was involved in MITE getting
the government business.

Presumably the machines were quite expensive, what with having the 
military as the only customer and the rather small production runs
that implies; but then they did have something of a monopoly on small
size.  There is one patent on a tape strip printer that fits inside
the shell of an aircraft panel instrument.

Jim W6JVE



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