in Astronomy from the University of California, Berkeley in 1942 and finished his formal education with a M.S.

[2] For his efforts, he earned the United States Navy's Superior Accomplishment Award.

[4] In 1964, this love for communication came together with the need to interact with a colleague who could not operate an amateur radio.

To solve this problem, Weitbrecht created a device that used the public telephone system to achieve communication: the teletypewriter (TTY).

[1] After being approached by James C. Marsters, Weitbrecht came up with a revised design for the acoustic coupler (a type of modem), which used echo suppression.