Hazeltine Corporation was an American defense electronics company, active from 1924 until 1986. It was acquired in 1986 by the Emerson Electric Company, and is part of BAE Systems Inc. since 1999.
History
1924–1986
The company was founded in 1924 by investors to exploit the Neutrodyne patent of Dr. Louis Alan Hazeltine. Headquartered in Greenlawn, Long Island, New York, since 1955, it had facilities in several other locations in Long Island, including its Wheeler Laboratories facility in Smithtown, New York, manufacturing plants in Riverhead and Little Neck, NY, and a division in Braintree, Massachusetts. Hazeltine Corporation employed 2,600 people by 1981.[1]
The company was created primarily to administer and license Hazeltine’s Neutrodyne patents to radio manufacturers. Through these licenses the Hazeltine Corporation received royalties on large numbers of broadcast receivers produced during the early 1920s, when the neutrodyne circuit became one of the dominant commercial receiver designs.