Records 1948-1975.

United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was established as an independent agency of the executive branch on October 1, 1958 by the National Aeronautics and Space Act (72 Stat. 426), approved July 29, 1958. It superseded the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). NASA conducted redsearch on problems of flight, developed aeronautical and space vehicles, explored outer space, and participated in international programs for the peaceful development of space technology....

International Business Machines Corporation

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International Business Machines Corporation was incorporated in New York State on June 16, 1911 under the name Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. In 1922, Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. purchased all of the shares of Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen Gesellschaft. In 1924 the official name of the company was changed to International Business Machines Corporation. In 1933, IBM CEO Thomas Watson ordered the merger of IBM subsidiaries in Germany (Optima, Degemag, Holgemag, Dehomag) under the name De...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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"The single event that triggered the establishment of Lawrence Livermore was detonation of the first Russian atomic bomb in 1949. Some American scientists were alarmed that the Soviets could advance quickly to the next step, the hydrogen bomb, with potential disaster for the West. Ernest Lawrence was a key participant in the World War II atomic bomb project at Los Alamos, a Nobel Laureate, and founder of the University of California Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley. Edward Teller wa...

Sperry Corporation

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The Sperry Rand Corporation was incorporated under the laws of Delaware on June 30, 1955, as a merger of Remington Rand, Inc., and The Sperry Corporation. Sperry Rand was renamed the Sperry Corporation on Aug. 1, 1979. On September 16, 1986 Sperry was merged into the Burroughs Corporation. Burroughs, the surviving corporate entity, was renamed the Unisys Corporation. The firm was a major manufacturer of office machines, computers, electric appliances, feedback control systems and aerospace compo...

Radio corporation of America

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Viking Mars Program (U.S.)

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Henry W. Norris was the Viking Orbiter manager; Kermit S. Watkins, deputy manager; Allen E. Wolfe, spacecraft system manager; and Dr. Conway W. Snyder, Viking Orbiter scientist. Norris was JPL's spacecraft system manager for the Mariner Mars l969 Project. He was named to the Viking position after the successful launch of Mariner VI last February and Mariner VII in March. (from JPL Press Release dated April 17, 1969 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/60s/release_1969_0512.html accessed...

Sperry Rand Corporation

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There are two epochs in the history of computing: before the completion of the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (known as the ENIAC), and after. While there are several controversies about the development of the ENIAC and its immediate successors, there is nearly universal agreement on three points: the ENIAC was the watershed project which convinced the world that electronic computing was not merely possible, but practicable; it was a masterpiece of electrical engineeri...

Project Mariner (U.S.)

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Norris, William C., 1911-2006

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William C. Norris was born in 1911. He graduated from the University of Nebraska with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering in 1932. He assumed management of the family farm upon the death of his father a few months later. From 1935 to 1941 he served as a sales engineer with the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company and worked in Omaha and Chicago. During World War II, Norris was commissioned as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy and was assigned to the Office of the Chief of Na...

Engineering research associates

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Early computer manufacturing firm. From the description of Engineering Research Associates records, 1945-1956. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 62435921 During the Second World War, the Navy recognized that the computer, with its ability to rapidly manipulate data streams, was a natural tool for encoding and decoding enemy messages. In 1944 and 1945 it sponsored a number of research projects in this area. Its most successful unit was l...

Reubens, Sydney.

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Project Gemini (U.S.)

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Sperry Corporation. Aerospace Division.

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The Sperry Corporation's Aerospace Division traces its origins to Engineering Research Associates (ERA) - a firm based in St. Paul, Minn. and founded by William Norris and Howard Engstrom. During World War II this original ERA group had worked for the Navy in an attempt to develop a computer for use in the classified cryptographic program. After the War Norris and Engstrom left the Navy to establish their own company, and in 1948 they signed a contract with the Navy to develop a com...

Project Mercury (U.S.)

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Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963. An early highlight of the Space Race, its goal was to put a man into Earth orbit and return him safely, ideally before the Soviet Union. Taken over from the U.S. Air Force by the newly created civilian space agency NASA, it conducted twenty unmanned developmental flights (some using animals), and six successful flights by astronauts. The astronauts were collectively known as the "Mercury...

Engstrom, Howard T. (Howard Theodore), 1902-1962

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Remington Rand, inc

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Project Apollo (U.S.)

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The Apollo program was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished landing the first humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972. First conceived during Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space, Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal of "landing a man on the Moon and returnin...