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Raytheon Manufacturing Company

1922-present

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The company headquarters were first located in Kendall Square, Cambridge, where they remained between 1922 and 1930. That year they relocated to Newton, staying until 1952, when a new site was built in Waltham. In 1961, They moved to a new campus in Lexington. In 2002, the Lexington site was sold off and they relocated to a new location in Waltham.

The company has many divisions and locations, many of which are in Massachusetts, but others as far as D.C. and Texas.
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  • United States
  • Lexington
  • Waltham

A long description of the company is found on "Raytheon Company: History," Raytheon, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raytheon (accessed 06/22/2015)

See also: "Raytheon Company History," Funding Universe, http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Raytheon-Company-Company-History.html (accessed 06/22/2015)

For a history of Raytheon's role in the development of Radar, see: "IN SYNC with the UNIVERSE: Raytheon's Journey into the World of Radar", in Technology Today (Raytheon's magazine), Vol. 1, Issue 3, (Summer 2002), pp10-13. Available online via Internet Archive Wayback machine, http://web.archive.org/web/20120904222256/http://www.raytheon.com/technology_today/archive/2002_Issue3.pdf(accessed 06/22/2015)

Listing of Raytheon Tubes made from a copy lent by Norman Krim of Raytheon on March 19, 1991
U.S. Patent of James D. LeVan - Gaseous Discharge Rectifier
U.S. Patent of James D. LeVan - Switch Tube Device for Waveguides
U.S. Patent of James D. LeVan - Grid Controlled Gaseous Discharge Tube
U.S. Patent of James D. LeVan - Seal
U.S. Patent of James D. LeVan - Thermionic Gaseous Discharge Rectifier
Agreement with respect to Inventions - Raytheon & Submarine Signal Co.
U.S. Patent of James D. LeVan - Electrical Discharge Tube
U.S. Patent of James D. LeVan - Electrical Discharge Device
U.S. Patent of James D. LeVan - Ultra High Frequency Tube
U.S. Patent of James D. LeVan - Gaseous Discharge Tube System
U.S. Patent of James D. LeVan - Electron Discharge Tube

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