More than 100 years after the invention of the telephone, deaf and hard of hearing people could finally make a telephone call to anyone. Today, TTY relay services, the original and now …

Teleprinters were invented in order to send and receive messages without the need for operators trained in the use of Morse code. A system of two teleprinters, with one operator trained to use …

Jan 12, 2016 · In the mid 1970s, as a young audiologist working in a university aural rehabilitation clinic, I inherited an old TTY. ‘Old’, at the time, was 1960s technology that cost between $650 …

Sep 23, 2024 · While his invention revolutionized communications, it wasn’t until the 1960s that a deaf inventor would develop a device to facilitate communication for non-hearing persons. The …

With the help of groups such as TDI and similar local groups promoting the use of TTYs, Weitbrecht’s invention helped open a new world of communication to the deaf. This collection …

In 1963, Marsters approached Dr. Robert Weitbrecht (1920-1983), a physicist and ham radio teletype (RTTY) enthusiast, to design an adapter that would allow TTYs to communicate over …

Feb 17, 2012 · During the late 1960s, Paul Taylor combined Western Union Teletype machines with modems to create teletypewriters, known as TTYs. He distributed these early, non …

TDI was known as the Telecommunications for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Inc. and was established in 1968 originally to promote further distribution of TTYs in the deaf community …

Last week we began a discussion of the development of the TTY, invented by Robert H. Weibrecht (1920-1 983), and initially developed in the early 1960s. At the time, the TTY was a …

After more correspondence, Marsters pur- chased a Western Union 32ASR TTY. He con- tinued to encourage Weitbrecht, and in November 1963, Weitbrecht invented an acoustic coupler …