Pompton Plains / Houston / Washington / D.C. / New York City / Pequannock Township / Annapolis / /
Company
Westinghouse Company / General Electric / Tiffany / Curtiss-Wright / Reaction Motors Inc. / Adjustment / Parsippany / IBM / The New York Times / General Motors / Wyld Regeneratively Cooled Rocket Motor / /
Continent
America / /
Country
Germany / United States / /
Currency
GBP / USD / /
Event
Product Recall / M&A / Product Issues / Reorganization / Force Majeure / Person Travel / Bankruptcy / /
Facility
Franklin Lakes facility / Columbia University / RMI’s Pompton Plains facility / Space Museum / Nelson airport / Pompton Plains headquarters / Teterboro Airport / Clark University / Shaw's Silver Factory building / Museum of New Jersey / California Institute of Technology / facility of RMI / Silver Factory building / Naval depot / RMI headquarters / Shaw’s Silver Factory / Pearl Harbor / Silver Factory / /
IndustryTerm
energy / test site / dangerous chemicals / high-tech industrial production / bulk chemicals / dedicated aerospace historians / cement building / aerospace history / steel test frame / public relations / /
NaturalFeature
Pines Lake / Erskine Lakes / Lake Inez.19 Launching / Franklin Lakes / Lake Denmark / Greenwood Lake / Cape Canaveral / Lower Lake / Severn River / Pompton Lakes / /
Organization
Columbia University / ARS’s Experimental Committee / U.S. government / Society’s Experimental Committee / German government / Advisory Commission for Aeronautics / Navy / German Rocket Society / United States Navy / Smithsonian / Army Air Force / California Institute of Technology / New York Railroad Club / Guggenheim Foundation / Pequannock Township Board of Adjustment / Clark University in Massachusetts / Former Franklin Lakes Police / American Interplanetary Society / State Police / American Rocket Society / U.S. Navy Bureau of Aeronautics / National Aeronautics and Space Administration / Oakland Fire Department / /
Person
Hugh Franklin Pierce / G. Edward Pendray / Fred Kessler / Harry W. Burdett / Jr. / Franklin Pierce / Homer A. Boushey Jr / Homer A. Boushey Jr. / James Hart Wyld / Chuck Yeager / Willy Ley / John Shesta / Robert H. Goddard / Lovell Lawrence / Jr. / Ronald J. Dupont / Jr. / Hugh Franklin Piece / Robert Holder / Edward J. Lenik / Mead Stapler / Arthur Pickering / W. Mead Stapler / Tom Swift / /
Position
Captain / president / Chief / engineer / author / contractor / executive / representative / treasurer and chief engineer / farmer / secretary and director of research.17 / writer and journalist / Wayne archaeologist / vice president and chief test engineer / business manager and president / well-known writer and journalist / instructor of civil engineering / /
Product
former RMI / sometimes comical maneuvering / C4 / Bell X-1 / energy / subsequent flying shrapnel / engine test / /
ProvinceOrState
California / New Jersey / Maryland / Bergen County / Massachusetts / /
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