Richard Boynton and Space Electronics, Inc.

摘要

Dick Boynton founded Space Electronics in 1959 while attending graduate courses at Yale University. The company existed in Dick's basement and garage in Yalesville, Connecticut. He later moved the company to a storefront in Meriden, Connecticut. In the 1960's, Space Electronics designed and built a variety of products including: 1. Flicker Fusion Tester to measure the human eye's response to pulsating light, 2. Wire Marker that painted colored bands on telephone wire as it passed through the extruding machine, 3. Antenna Drive responsible for aiming a large Yagi antenna used for astronomical research. The company made at least seven of these, and they were installed at NASA sites around the world.