Weitbrecht Communications, Inc. (WCI) is a
Santa Monica, California
Santa Monica (; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Santa Mónica'') is a city in Los Angeles County, California, Los Angeles County, situated along Santa Monica Bay on California's South Coast (California), South Coast. Santa Monica's 2020 United Sta ...
company that specializes in providing products for
deaf people. The company was founded as Applied Communications around 1965 by
Robert Weitbrecht
Robert Haig Weitbrecht (1920-1983) was an engineer at SRI International and later the spin-off company Weitbrecht Communications who invented a type of a modem (a form of acoustic coupler).
Early life and education
Weitbrecht was born in Orange, C ...
and
James C. Marsters based on Weitbrecht's invention of the
teleprinter
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. Initia ...
at
SRI International (then Stanford Research Institute).
External links
Official Weitbrecht Communications website
References
University spin-offs
Deaf culture in the United States
Technology companies based in Greater Los Angeles
Companies based in Santa Monica, California
Technology companies established in 1965
1965 establishments in California
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