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Raytheon was a major U.S. defense contractor and industrial corporation that merged with United Technologies in 2020. It produced electronics, missiles, and radar systems for military and commercial applications since 1922.
RTX Corporation, formerly Raytheon Technologies Corporation, is a multinational company that manufactures aircraft engines, missiles, satellites, and cybersecurity solutions. It was formed in 2020 by the merger of equals between the aerospace subsidiaries of United Technologies and Raytheon, and changed its name to RTX in 2023.
Vannevar Bush was an American engineer, inventor and science administrator who led the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) during World War II. He initiated the Manhattan Project, advocated for government support for science, and invented the differential analyzer and the memex.
the last part of the fourth paragraph of the Early life and work section might need a citation as it appears to be unreferenced: "Bush found backing from Laurence K. Marshall and Richard S. Aldrich to create the Spencer Thermostat Company, which hired Bush as a consultant. The new company soon had revenues in excess of a million dollars."
She married Laurence Kennedy Marshall in 1926; they had a daughter Elizabeth Marshall Thomas (born 1931) and a son John Kennedy Marshall (1932–2005). Marshall received a BA in English Literature from UC Berkeley in 1921 and an MA from Radcliffe College in 1928, and before 1926 worked as an English instructor at Mount Holyoke.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas is an American author of fiction and non-fiction books on animal behavior, Paleolithic life, and the !Kung Bushmen. She is the daughter of anthropologist Lorna Marshall and co-founder of Raytheon Corporation.
John Marshall was an American anthropologist and documentary filmmaker who recorded the lives of the Juǀʼhoansi in Namibia. He founded Documentary Educational Resources and pioneered the cinéma vérité style of filmmaking.
The following is a list of pilots and other aircrew who flew during the Battle of Britain, and were awarded the Battle of Britain Clasp [1] to the 1939–45 Star by flying at least one authorised operational sortie with an eligible unit of the Royal Air Force or Fleet Air Arm during the period from 0001 hours on 10 July to 2359 hours 31 October 1940.