It specialized in supplying equipment to military and industrial customers and in 1959 introduced the fully transistorbased ramowooldridge rw300 computer as a process control machine. Like his future colleague simon ramo, wooldridge went on to study at the. At that time it made a variety of parts for both the automotive and aviation industries. Trw the legacy of trw and space park a summary with key dates and milestones revision 6 dr. After the merger of ramo wooldridge with thompson products to form thompson. In 1958, ramo wooldridge merged with thompson products to form trw, which carried on the success of its predecessor.
Bell sound division was part of trw originated in 1901 with the cleveland cap screw company, founded by david kurtz and four other cleveland residents. This is a digitized version of an article from the timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. With continued backing from thompson products, ramowooldridge diversified into computers and electronic components. Many members of this group arewellknown in their fields. This is because at the time the book was written, trw was in the business of credit reporting.
The pump used on cobra jet mustangs is known as a ford thompson power steering pump because it was manufactured by two companies, ford motor company and trw which was known as thompson ramo wooldridge prior to 1965. The company was formed in 1958 as thompson ramo wooldridge inc. Electronic components division 666 garland place des plaines, illinois thordarson 7th and bellmont mt. Historical overview of the space and missile systems. History the origin of the company was in the cleveland cap screw company, founded in 1901 by charles e. Disagreements with howard hughes led to resignation of two leading specialists simon ramo and dean wooldridge, who formed in september 1953, with the financial help of thompson products company. The companys filing status is listed as active and its file number is 321929.
These combined companies became part of trw thompson ramo wooldridge corporation in 1963. The registered agent on file for this company is csclawyers incorporating service corporation service company and is located at 50 west broad street ste 1800, columbus, oh. Dean wooldridge retired from the company in january 1962 in order to become a professor at caltech. Thompson ramo woolridge trw computer history museum.
Simon ramo engineering hall of fame edison tech center. In february 1959, jimmy doolittle became chairman of the board of space technology laboratories stl, the division. In each of the five sections of the book, you will find schematics, parts lists, and discussions of operation of many of the. Dean wooldridge retired in january 1962 to become a professor at california institute of technology. Prices in represent the retail prices valid in germany unless otherwise indicated. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, the times does not alter, edit or update them. Trw is an acronym from its predecessor company, thompson ramo wooldridge. Wooldridge served as president of trw until he retired.
Trws work on atlas pioneered the practice of systems engineering and launched the company itself into a major expansion. Power steering pump mustang 428 cobra jet registry. There are a lot of names you can remember from the last 50 years or so in history, but. Search the history of over 424 billion web pages on the internet. Nasd later changed its name to financial industry regulatory authority. Ramowooldridge merged with thompson products to become trw, and. This book is a collection of solidstate powersupply circuits. The objective of this portion of the program was to provide a full scale condenserradiator component suitable for integration into the mercury rankine cycle sunflower i space power system. Ramo wooldridge it became thompson ramo wooldridge via merger in 1958 got its big break when it was selected to manage the systems integration on the united states first intercontinental ballistic missile, the atlas icbm. The company went through several owners and name changes early in the 20th century until in 1926 it took the name thompson products inc. This book is a compilation of many rf and audio circuits using transistors. Bell labs and bell sound division thompson ramo wooldridge, inc.
Free of anticompetitive restrictions short of icbm hardware, stl was renamed trw systems group that same month. The foundation for economic education continues in existence and continues to publish the freeman. Wooldridge was named president with ramo as an executive director who was. Thompson, which eventually became thompson products. It began producing automotive parts and underwent several reorganizations, becoming the electric welding products company 1908, the steel products company 1915, and thompson products inc. It handled system engineering and technical direction for numerous air force projects.
After the merger of ramowooldridge with thompson products to form thompson. This magnetic drum memory machine was sold to many different firms and trw had agreements with firms such as the french bull group to market it in europe. Computer control and monitoring for electric power systems. Ramo wooldridge developed this advanced transistorized computer for online control, data reduction, and data logging applications. Power steering pump ford power steering pumps are identified by basic part number 3a674. It specialized in supplying equipment to military and industrial customers and in. Portrait of ralph johnson, vice president, electronics divisions, thompson ramo wooldridge inc. In 1958 the company was called thompson ramo wooldridge, after three prominent leaders. Ramo became president of the computer arm of the company, bunkerramo corp. Top american libraries canadian libraries universal library community texts project gutenberg biodiversity heritage library childrens library. The trw low maintenance rifle or lmr was a proposed insurgency weapon designed by trw inc. Ramo woolridge corporation and thompson products merged in october 1958 to form thompson ramo wooldridge inc.
Dean everett wooldridge may 30, 19 in chickasha, oklahoma september 20, 2006 in santa barbara, california was a prominent engineer in the aerospace industry something of a prodigy, wooldridge graduated from high school at age of 14. In 1958, ramowooldridge merged with its financial backer, thompson products, and the company was eventually renamed trw. The first such organization was the ramo wooldridge corporation, chosen in 1954 to provide systems engineering and technical direction for wdds missile programs. As the expo ended, thompson products president frederick c.
Prices in gbp apply to orders placed in great britain only. His work in electronics resulted his writing two textbooks which quickly. In 1958, ramo wooldridge merged with thompson products to form thompson ramo wooldridge trw. All about polymorphics by thompson ramo wooldridge, inc. Five years later, the two companies merged into thompson ramo wooldridge, which shortened its name to trw in 1965. Nuclear reactor monitoring, 1962 computer history museum. He also published textbooks on fields and waves in modern radio 1944 and. In september 1953 they jointly resigned, and within a week they formed the ramo wooldridge corporation on september 16, 1953. Thompson products and ramo wooldridge merged in october 1958 to form thompson ramo wooldridge inc.
It lasted more than a century until being acquired by northrop grumman in 2002. Examination of the prices paid for spare parts under department of the air force contracts af 0160120268 and af 346014833 with thompson ramo woolridge, inc. In 1958, ramowooldridge merged with its financial backer, thompson. Ramo wooldridge division of thompson ramo wooldridge inc. Hromas november 2008 this document was created by the author for educational purposes and is not an official statement of dates and events. Simon ramo, an engineering impresario who was chief technical director of. Reel to reel tape recorder manufacturers bell sound. A little bit of doosan babcock history all about the foundry casting process. Thompson ramo wooldridge officially became trw inc. To perform these important engineering tasks, thompson ramo wooldridge products has assembled an outstanding group of systems analysts, applications engineers, project engineers, and programmers. Carmel, illinois united transformer corporation 150 varick street. Due to current capacity constraints, printed versions of our publications including standards, technical papers, edge reports, scholarly journal articles, books, and paint chips may experience shipping delays of up to two weeks. He wrote and cowrote 62 books on diverse subjects, including a. The intent was to produce an easytouse and operate firearm which could be disseminated to insurgent forces supporting the united states military interests.
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