Word: klystrons
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...think tank" operations like those of its off-campus affiliate, the Stanford Research Institute, which serves everyone from the Bank of America to a Nevada gambling casino. Led by Provost Frederick E. Terman, the university's own first-rate engineering school produced such electronic inventions as the klystron tube, which in turn spurred a space-age complex around Palo Alto that now comprises more than 200 companies. Today the campus proper boasts a 500-acre industrial park...
Died. Sigurd F. Varian, 60, ex-chairman of California's Varian Associates, a one time barnstorming pilot whose distaste for blind flying led him to invent (with two partners) the klystron tube, the high-frequency heart of radar development; in a private-plane crash; between Guadalajara and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico...
Died. Dr. Russell Harrison Varian, 61, inventor (1937) with his brother Sigurd of the klystron, a radio tube operating at microwave frequencies that figured prominently in the development of World War II radar and later guided missiles, founder (1948) and board chairman of Varian Associates, a fast-rising, $20 million-a-year electronics firm; of a heart attack; aboard a cruise ship near Juneau, Alaska...
...other for locking onto them and tracking them, at first presented another hazard: a spillover of X rays. Several men were found to have been overexposed before this fact was detected, but none have shown any ill effects. The danger was eliminated by installing extra lead shielding for the klystron tubes in the transmitters. Future tubes will be made with the shielding built...
Litton products have already gone far round the free world. In Turkey, a probing Litton radar antenna reportedly keeps tabs on Soviet missile firings. Across the far north of Canada and Alaska, Litton klystron tubes generate radar beams for the Distant Early Warning line. At almost every sizable U.S. airport, Litton antennas help control flights; in universities, Litton digital desk computers solve calculus jawbreakers. Litton claims to be the nation's biggest seller of desk calculating machines, the broadest supplier of TV replacement transformers (more than 900 different models), one of the two largest makers (along with American Bosch...