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The Raytheon Company was founded in 1922 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, by Laurence K. Marshall, Vannevar Bush, and Charles G. Smith as the American Appliance Company. [13] Its focus, which was originally on new refrigeration technology, soon shifted to electronics. The company's first product was a gaseous (helium) rectifier that was based on ...
Early years In 1922, Vannevar Bush, scientist and professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), along with engineer and physicist Laurence K. Marshall, and scientist Charles G. Smith, founded the American Appliance Company in Cambridge, Massachusetts. [9] Its focus, which was originally on new refrigeration technology, soon shifted to ...
Charles Grandison Finney (August 29, 1792 – August 16, 1875) was a controversial American Presbyterian minister and leader in the Second Great Awakening in the United States. He has been called the "Father of Old Revivalism ". [1] Finney rejected much of traditional Reformed theology.
Charles Martin Smith (born October 30, 1953) is an American actor and filmmaker, based in British Columbia, Canada. His breakout role was as Terry "The Toad" Fields in George Lucas ' film American Graffiti (1973), which he reprised for its sequel More American Graffiti (1979).
The Union order of battle during the Battle of Gettysburg includes the American Civil War officers and men of the Army of the Potomac (multiple commander names indicate succession of command during the three-day battle (July 1–3, 1863)). Order of battle compiled from the army organization during the battle, [1] the casualty returns [2] and ...
Charles Ferguson Smith (April 24, 1807 – April 25, 1862) was an American military officer who served in the United States Army during the Mexican–American War (1846-1848), and a decade later in the subsequent Utah War; (1857-1858) against the Mormon settlers in the newly established weatern Federal Utah Territory.
History A newspaper called The Georgia Enterprise was first published in 1865, six months after the end of The Civil War, by William L. Beebe. In 1902, this paper merged with its competitor, The Covington Star, to become The Enterprise under the ownership of Charles G. Smith.
Lawrence K. Marshall, Vannevar Bush and Charles G. Smith founded the American Appliance Company, [30] initially to manufacture refrigerators that would run more quietly, but then moved into electronics to market Smith's invention, the voltage-regulator tube or "S"-tube that could convert alternating current used in home electricity to a ...