Instronics Ltd.

Instronics Techno-Products Ltd.

Company

Image	Name	Function
	Cursor	nan
	Keyboard, computer	A DATA INPUT COMPONENT OF A COMPUTER, USED TO ENTER...
	Scanner	A PRECISION DIGITIZER, USED TO CONVERT GRAPHIC INFORMATION IN THE...
	Table	nan
	Base	nan
	Pedal, control	nan

1956-06-19

1980-12-16

143 Neil Street, Stittsville, ON (c. 1956)

Electronics

Supplying

Manufacturing

- 1956, June – Incorporated (Corporation #462373), and located at 143 Neil Street, Stittsville, ON. “Started out as rep organisation, then got into manufacturing out in Stittsville and it was quite a little operation for a long time.” (“Instronics Ltd.”; “Valley Kid”, 13)

- 1964 – Active in Stittsville, ON. (Fraser’s Canadian Trade Directory 1964)

- 1975 – Mentioned in article as manufacturers of a piece of digitizing equipment: “Enlarged cell profiles were digitized using a Gradicon digitizer (Instronics Ltd., Stittsville, Ontario).” (Jay, 205)

- 1977 – “An expression of thanks is due to Y. Fujimoto of the Photogrammetric Research Section, NRC, for designing and preparing a number of electronic chassis used in the testing of the servo system and photo carriages of the analytical plotter, to A. Lanthier, Instronics Ltd., for developing the preproduction prototype chassis and boards, and M. T. Lam, lnstronics Ltd., for preparing and testing part of the electronics wiring information.” (Real & Lay, 1026)

- December 16, 1980 – Dissolved (“Instronics Ltd.”)

Fraser’s Canadian Trade Directory (1964): 764, 768.

“Instronics Ltd.” OpenGovCa https://opengovca.com/corporation/462373 [22-07-24]

Jay, Alfred W.L., “Geometry of the Human Erythrocyte” Biophysical Journal 15, 205–222 (1975) (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1122337/): 205

Memoirs of a Valley Kid “NRC, Noranda, Northern opened high tech floodgates” Silicon Valley NORTH (February 1996): 12-13

Real, R.R., Lay, K.K., “Control system for the analytical processing of stereo images” Review of Scientific Instruments 48, 1021–1027 (1977): 1026