Houston / Binghamton / Mountain View / Syracuse / Palo Alto / New York / Ithaca / Berlin / Sunnyvale / Los Angeles / San Diego / Chicago / /
Company
General Electric / Hewlett-Packard / Microwave Engineering Laboratories / Hercules / Kern County Land Company / GTE / Electronics Defense Laboratory / Ampex / RCA / Radio Research Laboratory / ITT / General Electric Microwave Laboratory / Zenith / Sperry Gyroscope Company / U.S. Electronics / U. S. Electronics When Fairchild Semiconductor / Walt Disney Studies / Western Development Laboratories / GE Microwave Laboratory / Itek / Reconnaissance Systems Laboratories / 1962 Granger Associates / Nike / Lockheed / Granger Associates / Westinghouse / Link Aviation / Varian Associates / Watkins-Johnson / Electronic Systems Laboratories / Radiation Laboratory / Huggins Laboratories / Microwave Physics Laboratory / Hard Times / Sylvania / Litton Industries / Bell Laboratories / Ford / Teledyne / Philco / Stanford's Radioscience Laboratory / Microwave Electronics Corporation / Stewart Engineering / /
Continent
America / /
Country
United States / /
Currency
USD / /
Event
M&A / Company Expansion / Funding / Earnings Announcement / Reorganization / Person Travel / Debt Financing / /
Facility
Radio Research Laboratory / Stanford University / GE's Microwave Laboratory / Air Force Satellite Control Facility / The laboratory / Stanford Research Institute / Federal Telephone's New Jersey plant / Stanford Industrial Park / Signal Corps laboratory / General Electric Microwave Laboratory / /
IndustryTerm
surveillance satellite contracts / manufacturing facility / manufacturing power vacuum tubes / aerospace contractors / mobile communications / communication systems / command systems / machinery / myopic component maker / security systems / manufacturing auto / local tape maker / countermeasures systems / warfare equipment / antenna systems / active-repeater communications satellite / satellite / satellite tracking / aerospace division / power tube manufacturer / aerospace industry / telephone / countermeasures applications / big defense systems / exotic hardware / aerospace / microwave technologies / flight simulator manufacturer / radar systems / microwave devices / klystron / communications satellite network / communications equipment / satellite detection / missile guidance systems / tube manufacturing plant / microwave tubes / upper management / converted supermarket / aerospace complex / metal ceramic designs / antenna manufacturer / spread-spectrum communications gear / satellite programs / search receivers / communications satellites / communications systems / electronics / high-speed digital data communications system / manufacturing divisions / large real estate / microwave equipment / spin-off / /
NaturalFeature
Santa Clara Valley / East Coast / West Coast / /
Organization
army / Cornell University / navy / Central Intelligence Agency / air force / Army Signal Corps / Signal Corps / Harvard / Stanford Research Institute / Microwave Laboratory / Defense Production Administration / Stanford University / National Aeronautics and Space Administration / Department of Defense / Stanford / /
Person
Lester Field / Russell Varian / William Eitel / Jack McCullough / William Hewlett / Terman / John Granger / William Ayer / Ralph Heintz / Charles "Tex" Thorton / Ray Stewart / Marvin Chodorow / Charles Litton / Edward Ginzton / Richard Johnson / Stuart W. Leslie / Cyril Elwell / William Perry / Erwin Nalos / Stanley Kaisel / Dean Watkins / Robert Noyce / David Packard / /
Position
head of the tube division / president / engineer / research associate / defense contract leader / Admiral / psychologist / faculty consultant / researcher / Dean of Engineering / technician / Undersecretary of Commerce / director / co-founder / Hughes engineer / /
ProvinceOrState
New York / California / New Jersey / Santa Clara County / Massachusetts / /
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