For more than six decades, Texas Instruments has created milestone innovations, including the first commercial silicon transistors, the first integrated circuit, and the first electronic hand-held calculator. Select a decade, and we'll take you on a short historical tour of TI Innovations..
Steven Wozniak and Steven Jobs had been friends in high school. They had both been interested in electronics, and both had been perceived as outsiders. They kept in touch after graduation, and both ended up dropping out of school and getting jobs working for companies in Silicon Valley. (Woz for Hewlett-Packard, Jobs for Atari)
The company was founded by Paul V. Galvin as the Galvin Manufacturing Corporation, in Chicago, Illinois, in 1928. Its first product was a "battery eliminator," allowing consumers to operate radios directly from household current instead of the batteries supplied with early models. In the 1930s, the company successfully commercialized car radios under the brand name "Motorola," a word suggesting sound in motion. During this period, the company also established home radio and police radio departments; instituted pioneering personnel programs; and began national advertising. The name of the company was changed to Motorola, Inc., in 1947.
The history of AT&T is in large measure the history of the telephone in the United States. AT&T's roots stretch back to 1875, with founder Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone. During the 19th century, AT&T became the parent company of the Bell System, the American telephone monopoly. The Bell System provided what was by all accounts the best telephone service in the world.
As lighting systems and their applications become increasingly complex, it becomes more important than ever to discover how lighting works. The GE Lighting Institute offers a variety of demonstration lighting environments that provide you with ways to translate good lighting into profits for your business.
Between the flag that flew at the Trinity Site base camp, tattered from the strong New Mexican winds, and a spare "Fat Man" nuclear bomb casing, Akira Ono of Osaka, Japan, tours the National Atomic Museum in Albuquerque. Ono said he had mixed feelings visiting a museum dedicated to weapons of mass destruction.
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Louis Pasteur
Chemist
1822 - 1895
Louis Pasteur was born on December 27, 1822 in Dole, in the region of Jura, France. His discovery that most infectious diseases are caused by germs, known as the "germ theory of disease," is one of the most important in medical history. His work became the foundation for the science of microbiology, and a cornerstone of modern medicine.
Clara Harlowe Barton was born on December 25, 1821 in North Oxford, Massachusetts. In her long career of public service Miss Barton was successively a teacher, battlefield nurse, lecturer, and finally organizer and president of the American Red Cross.
In point of fact, Information Superhighway is just a bureaucrat's buzz phrase. No one is even sure who first used it, though many people have accused Vice President A1 Gore. The term Information Superhighway is applied with stunning abandon these days, often erroneously, to mean just about anything linked to a wire--your telephone, your cable television, your doorbell. This is part of the confusion many people face, and surely part of their apprehension.
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