Word: tech
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though electronics companies frequently start with little more than an idea and a basement workshop, Scientific-Atlanta's beginnings were inauspicious even by those standards. Founded in 1951 by six Georgia Tech staffers to produce some items developed in Tech's labs, it began with an initial capital of $600 and a corner in an Atlanta air-conditioning warehouse. Its founders were so unwilling to chance their futures that they kept their teaching jobs, hired as general manager a Union Carbide physicist named Glen P. Robinson Jr. Robinson worked the first year without salary, and the company lost...
...Signal Corps order in 1954 to develop a new plastic lens antenna. It needed a recorder to test the patterns of the more sophisticated antenna, but the cheapest recorder cost $10,000-just about the company's net worth at the time. Robinson rounded up consultants from Georgia Tech, worked day and night for five months, finally developed a homemade recorder that was more accurate and could be sold more cheaply than those on the market. The recorder converts radio signals passing through an antenna into graph lines that show in which positions the antenna receives or sends...
After a thorough tour of Tech's Computer Center and an explanation of the intricacies of the IBM 7090, the Prince was whisked away to fulfill social obligations elsewhere...
...Tech men didn't take a single shot during the first seven minutes but compensated by scoring on their first excursion into Crimson territory. Holding the varsity scoreless, the enlightened Engineers added two more tallies in the second period to take a surprising 3-2 halftime lead...
...Tech Takes Lead...