Raytheon Company - The First Sixty Years

Raytheons history is one of the great American success stories. Launched in 1922, the

Cambridge-based company quickly moved to the forefront of innovation in the electronics industry. During World War II, thousands of Raytheon workers contributed to the war effort, supplying eighty percent of the magnetron tubes (vital components for U.S. and British radars), developing miniature tubes for the crucial proximity fuse in antiaircraft shells, and providing entire radar systems. Although government contracts slowed after World War II, Raytheon continued to develop military components, including leading-edge radars and missiles for Americas defenses in the Cold War, but it also began to offer a host of civilian products: the famous RadaRange (the worlds first microwave oven), televisions, marine radars, transistors, miniature hearing aids, and medical equipment.

About the author

Alan R. Earls, a technology and business writer, has covered high-technology stories since the early 1980s. Robert E. Edwards, a forty-three-year Raytheon veteran, was an engineering manager and is currently a volunteer at the Raytheon Archives.

Product details

• Authors: Alan R Earls, Alan R. Earls, Robert E Edwards, Robert E. Edwards
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.05.2005
• EAN: 9780738537474
• ISBN: 978-0-7385-3747-4
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 167 mm x 237 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 299 g
• Series: Images of America (Arcadia Pub; Images of America (Arcadia Pub; Images of America
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries