Private company

Teletype Corporation

Logo: Teletype Corporation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

American teleprinter manufacturer

The Teletype Corporation was an American manufacturer of teleprinters and other data and record communications equipment. A part of American Telephone and Telegraph Company's Western Electric manufacturing arm from 1930, it came into being in 1928 when the Morkrum-Kleinschmidt Company changed its name to the name of its trademark equipment.2 It ceased to exist in 1982.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1928Founded1
  • Industrycommunication1
  • HeadquartersChicago1

The Teletype Corporation was an American manufacturer of teleprinters and other data and record communications equipment. A part of American Telephone and Telegraph Company's Western Electric manufacturing arm from 1930, it came into being in 1928 when the Morkrum-Kleinschmidt Company changed its name to the name of its trademark equipment.2

Products and brands

  • teleprinter

Listed on Wikidata.1

Timeline

  1. 1982Dissolved Dissolved1
  2. 1928Founded Founded1

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