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Nov 8, 1980 · Laurence K. Marshall, a founder and former president of the Raytheon Company, an international, diversified electronics concern, died Wednesday at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Mass. He was ...
History An early Raytheon tube box A Raytheon Tomahawk Block IV cruise missile during a U.S. Navy flight test at NAWS China Lake, California (November 10, 2002) 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 ...
- July 7, 1922; 101 years ago, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
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Jul 1, 2021 · In June of 1950, Laurence K. Marshall, former chairperson of Raytheon Company, and his 17-year-old son John trekked into the deserts of Southern Africa seeking the famed “Lost City of the Kalahari.” They did not find a lost city, but this expedition began a life-long relationship between the Marshall Family and people of the Kalahari Desert.
Nov 15, 2023 · 2001.29.657 Gift of Laurence K. Marshall and Lorna J. Marshall. The collection of photographic and written records, created by the Laurence K. and Lorna J. Marshall family, documents how Indigenous peoples of the Kalahari Desert region—primarily the Ju/’hoansi, G/ui, and Naro—lived prior to extended contact with the Western world.
Jan 19, 2023 · Laurence K. Marshall, Vannevar Bush, and Charles G. Smith established Raytheon Company as the American Appliance Company in 1922, while Frederick Rentschler founded United Technologies Corporation as United Aircraft Corporation in 1934.
May 15, 2024 · Raytheon was founded in 1922 as the American Appliance Company by three scientist-engineers—Laurence K. Marshall, Charles G. Smith, and Vannevar Bush—in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Its focus, which was originally on new refrigeration technology, soon shifted to electronics.
