Welcome EMR alumni, family and friends!
| Sixty years ago, in
1957, EMR Telemetry Division
migrated from Ridgefield, Connecticut to Sarasota, Florida which
represented the dawn of a new era in aerospace and other yet-to-be
developed products for space exploration, aeronautics and oil
exploration. One definition of telemetry is "the process of
recording and transmitting the readings of an instrument." Another is
"to measure at a distance." Typically these refer to equipment that is
connected to each other without the use of a wire. Thus
transmitting. EMR was a member of the International Telemetering Conference (ITC). EMR employees regularly provide articles/papers to ITC. These can be found at the ITC web page at UA. Enter "EMR" in the search box to see articles by EMR employees. EMR (Electro-Mechanical Research) was to become, for a time, the largest employer in Sarasota County and it's products were a mystery to many in Sarasota. EMR was the number one telemetry manufacturer in the world, both in sales and quality. Early on, EMR was heavily reliant on Government contracts to design and develop products. When a new contract started, the company hired employees to fulfill the needs of the customer's contract. When the contract was concluded, it sometimes required downsizing the employee level consistent with the current need. Eventually the company learned to hire contactors for the length of a big contract to even out the ups and downs. EMR not only built telemetry equipment, it also excelled in putting the equipment together to build a computerized system. Early projects included: Celoscope and Dyna-Soar. Systems for Fairchild Republic A-10, Boeing 747 and Gates Learjet were typical for the 70s. In the 80s systems were built for government ranges including Edwards AFB, White Sands Missile Range and China Lake. Besides the aerospace field, work was done for nuclear reactors, water monitoring, auto testing and weather. In 1978, Schlumberger moved the Data Recorders Division to Sarasota from the Illinois Facility. In 1981 manufacturing of the Fairchild Flight Data Recorder (FDR) and Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) was moved to Sarasota from Commack, NY. EMR was well known to be the very best place to work in Sarasota County in terms of salaries and working conditions. Many employees that came from other companies said it was the best place they ever worked. 30th Anniversary Brochure Aviation Recorders moves to St. Pete: L3 Leaves Sarasota We welcome contributions in writing or images which will contribute to this site: mike@emr-telemetry.org |
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Last updated: 07-05-2021
