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Stanford Applied Electronics Laboratory

Stanford Applied Electronics Laboratory

Image creditStanford University, program for the Review of Stanford Electronics Research by Representatives of U.S. Government Contractors, August 18-19, 1955; scan published by Steve Blank
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Stanford Applied Electronics Laboratory

Year
1950
Creator
Frederick Terman
Company
Stanford University
Location
Stanford University campus, California

Description

The Applied Electronics Laboratory was a Stanford laboratory for electronic warfare research, which the Office of Naval Research asked Frederick Terman to start in 1950. The image shows the program of a 1955 meeting where government contractors reviewed electronics research at Stanford.

Importance

Navy money and a gift from Hewlett-Packard paid for the laboratory, which made prototype intelligence receivers, radar jammers, and over-the-horizon radar. Companies such as the Sylvania Electronic Defense Laboratory in Mountain View made production versions of this equipment. The laboratory continued the wartime radar-jamming work of Terman, and overhead payments on its contracts helped to pay for the rest of the university.

Interesting fact

In 1968 almost 35 percent of the electronics research money at Stanford was for classified work, and most of that work was in this laboratory.

Sources

  1. The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part X: Stanford Crosses the Rubicon ↗Steve Blank · 2009-08-17
  2. The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part 15: Agena, the Secret Space Truck, Ferrets and Stanford ↗Steve Blank · 2010-03-08
  3. At the Hands of the Radicals (Richard W. Lyman) ↗Stanford Magazine · 2009-01