HELAVA,UUNO,VILHO AT OTTICO-MECCANICA-ITALIANA IN ROME, ITALY

Umberto Nistri's company in Rome, Ottico Meccanica Italiana (OMI), had the requisite mechanical engineering background and photogrammetric e xpertise to be ideal for the manufacture of an analytical plotter. The initiative of Umberto's son, Paolo, led to OMI obtaining the rights t o the idea from the National Research Council of Canada in 1957. OMI a nd Bendix worked together on a series of military analytical plotters, then turned to commercial versions too. Uki Helava worked at OMI in R ome in 1965-66 to mastermind this latter effort but left for Bendix Re search Laboratories when the developments could not be carried out wit h the speed he would have liked.