Word: raytheon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pyrographite is in limited production now, mostly for military purposes, but Raytheon sees many commercial possibilities, e.g., as lightweight insulation against extreme heat...
Three years ago, Raytheon Co. of Waltham, Mass, set out to see what it could do to cure these shortcomings. Its scientists started with the knowledge that when carbon-rich gases are put in a lab furnace and decomposed by high heat, they sometimes deposit carbon in the form of a peculiarly dense graphite. At first this stuff was only a laboratory curiosity, and for a long time no one made it in quantity or thoroughly tested its properties. But after considerable experimentation, Raytheon's furnaces yielded a hard, impermeable, layered material that looks like black porcelain. Called Pyrographite...
Certainly, the College should be as solicitous--or, more correctly, as effective--in providing information to the scholars and teachers that it will need as it is in dispensing job leads to next year's Raytheon engineers and application hints to future Johns Hopkins graduates
...many engineers of different varieties that Woodward needed four pages to list them. Among them: top electronic experts from Raytheon, Sylvania and Trans-Sonics, all located near Lexington on booming Route 128 (TIME, July...
Fish Finder. A small (6 in. in diameter), portable fathometer depth sounder for amateur fishermen, which flashes a red signal when a small boat passes over a fish, was put on sale by Raytheon Co. The device, small enough for use on a canoe or raft, sends out ultrasonic signals that fish cannot hear, is powered by a self-contained battery...