Word: raytheon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...color TV, is planning to market a noiseless electronic air conditioner, has a pilot model now in operation. A.T.&T., whose entire telephone network is one gigantic computer, is working hard on a visual phone system it calls "Picture-phone," is experimenting with pushbutton dialing and voice dialing. Raytheon is already producing electronic range units for near-instant cooking, hopes to get the price to consumers down to $500 (from $1,200) soon. Westinghouse, which already has computer-controlled electronic elevators in operation, will soon market an electronic air purifier that removes 90% of all bacteria and pollen from room...
Mass production was also boosting safety devices, driving down prices on expensive navigational equipment. Raytheon produced a simple kitelike screen ($14.95) to hang on a mast in a fog so that small craft will shine extra bright on big ships' radar. And depth indicators that sold two years ago for $500 were down...
...densely traveled routes, the radars will also pick up small aircraft flying at altitudes lower than 15,000 feet. Designed and built by the Raytheon Manufacturing Co., the new installations will each use a mammoth 40-ft. antenna and will be able to feed up to 15 monitor screens simultaneously. Among their other refinements: an appreciable decrease in the "clutter" which plagues much radar during rainy weather; a filtering system which cuts out reflections from fixed objects, thus registering only moving objects; electronically generated maps, which can be superimposed on the radarscope for immediate identification of the territory over which...
...Weather Bureau (traditionally starved, by Congress) has only a few hand-me-down military radars. But this week the Bureau announced a $3,800,000 contract with Raytheon Manufacturing Co. for 39 complete radar units specially designed for its specialized needs...
Charles F. Adams, Jr. '32, president of Raytheon Manufacturing Company and a wartime Navy Commander told the white-garbed seniors of the sacrifices and satisfactions of the three-year service ahead of them. An NROTC graduate 24 years ago, Adams told the commissioned officers that "even in 1932... I found it hard to determine of which I was most proud, my Harvard degree or my commission in the Naval Reserve...