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The Raytheon Company was founded in 1922 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, by Laurence K. Marshall, Vannevar Bush, and Charles G. Smith as the American Appliance Company. [13] Its focus, which was originally on new refrigeration technology, soon shifted to electronics. The company's first product was a gaseous (helium) rectifier that was based on ...
The company's first product was a gaseous voltage-regulator tube that was based on Charles Smith's earlier astronomical research of the star Zeta Puppis. [10] The electron tube was christened with the name Raytheon (a compound of Old French and Greek meaning 'light from the gods') [ 11 ] and was used in a battery eliminator , a type of radio ...
Charles Martin Smith (born October 30, 1953) is an American actor and filmmaker, based in British Columbia, Canada. His breakout role was as Terry "The Toad" Fields in George Lucas ' film American Graffiti (1973), which he reprised for its sequel More American Graffiti (1979). He subsequently worked had notable roles in The Spikes Gang (1974 ...
July 15, 1922 (Saturday) The Japanese Communist Party (日本共産党 or Nihon Kyōsan-tō) was founded by three former anarchists, Katsuzō Arahata, Toshihiko Sakai and Hitoshi Yamakawa. [55] The JCP would be outlawed on April 22, 1925, with the passage of the Peace Preservation Law and would not become legal again until 1945.
In 1902, this paper merged with its competitor, The Covington Star, to become The Enterprise under the ownership of Charles G. Smith. The Enterprise was sold in 1908 to Lon. L. Flowers, and its name was changed to The Covington News. The newspaper had a number of owners between 1908 and 1931, when it was purchased by Belmont Dennis and his family.
Smith (born Schmidoff), [1] was born in Lipnick, Russian Empire on March 28, 1901 [2] to Sadie and Reuven Schmidoff, in an Orthodox Russian Jewish family. [3][4] His family farmed potatoes and corn. [4] At age 7, he contracted diphtheria. [4] His father immigrated to the U.S. in 1908 to earn money to bring the rest of the family over. [4]
Charles Ferguson Smith (April 24, 1807 – April 25, 1862) was an American military officer who served in United States Army during the Mexican–American War and the Utah War; and as a Union Army major general in the American Civil War. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1825 and served as an instructor at the academy ...
Charles Edward Smith IV (born November 29, 1967) is an American former professional basketball player who played with the Boston Celtics and Minnesota Timberwolves in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Smith was also a member of the bronze medal-winning 1988 United States Olympic team and was an All-American college player at Georgetown.