Technical innovations and business in the Bay Area, 1920-1980.

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Technical innovations and business in the Bay Area, 1920-1980.

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Covers Heintz's career in radio and aviation electronics and in radio communications; founding and operations of Ralph M. Heintz Scientific Apparatus, Heintz and Kaufman, Jack and Heintz; his vacuum tube design and manufacture; wartime production of aircraft starters and automatic pilots; work on the buzz bomb; patent disputes with Radio Corporation of America (RCA) and others; consulting for Hewlett-Packard, and growth of the electronics industry in the San Francisco Bay Area; his invention of the stratified charge engine and assignment of patents to Stanford University; other inventions. Also includes descriptions of his early childhood in Salt Lake City, his family's move to California, gold mining in Horsetown, Ca., and the San Francisco earthquake.

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Heintz, Ralph Morrell, 1892-1980,

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Founded 1939. Manufacturer of computer components, peripherals, and software; semiconductors; laboratory equipment; measuring devices. From the description of Archives. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83383181 Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard were friends and fellow graduates of Stanford University. Following their graduation from Stanford, the two founded the electronics firm Hewlett-Packard Company in 1938. Their first product was the resistance-capacity audio oscillator (HP 2...