Background
Colvin was born in Sterling, Massachusetts in 1893 to Fred Herbert Colvin (1867-1965) and Mary K. Loring (1869-?). He co-founded the Pioneer Instrument Company in 1919, and sold the company in 1929 to the Bendix Corporation.
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Charles Colvin
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In the early 1950s, he started Colvin Laboratories, which manufactured aeronautical instruments, in East Orange, New Jersey. He retired from business in 1963. He died July 3, 1985 at Saint Joseph Hospital in Ojai, California, after a long illness.
He was 92 years old and had been living in Ojai.
United States. GB429,717 May 6, 1935. "Improvements in navigating and calculating apparatus for aircraft".
