Records, 1949-1965.

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Records, 1949-1965.

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The ERA records include correspondence, technical reports and memoranda, minutes of the administrative, manufacturing, planning and engineering committees which describe work on the LARC, ERA 1101 and 1103, the Rapid Selector, and the bore hole camera. There are also records documenting ERA's involvement with the U.S. missle and rocketry programs of the late 1950s. ERA's successful effort to build airborne computers for the Jupiter and Sparrow programs are described.

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Sperry Rand Corporation

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Cohen, Arnold J.

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Norris, Sidney.

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Eckert, J. Presper (John Presper), 1919-1995

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