California
As a structural engineering student at the University of Michigan in the early 1930s, George Housner never gave a thought to earthquakes.
Oct. 15, 1999
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Feb. 15, 2012
Business
Unit Instruments Inc: The Yorba Linda company’s parent, Autoclave Engineers Inc., will close its corporate offices Friday in Erie, Pa., and move to Unit’s offices, saving an estimated $1 million.
Sept. 26, 1995
Technology: Texas Instruments says decision finds that one of its engineers is rightful inventor of chip microprocessor.
June 20, 1996
The blast of a jet engine has knocked out the instrument landing system at John Wayne Airport, raising the possibility that the airport will have to be closed during fog or rain.
Sept. 30, 1989
Mark Shepherd Jr. dies at 86; former chairman of Texas Instruments
Feb. 13, 2009
Science & Medicine
The problems plaguing the Hubble Space Telescope are far more complex than the nagging troubles it initially suffered and if not resolved will undermine the effectiveness of the $1.5-billion instrument, engineers said Thursday.
June 15, 1990
Obituaries
Mark Shepherd Jr., a former Texas Instruments Inc. chairman who helped convert the company into an electronics giant during his 40-year career, died Feb. 4 of complications from pulmonary fibrosis at his ranch in Quitman, Texas.
Archives
Roland Engineers Use Technology to Re-Create the Noise Within Their Heads
Jan. 26, 1998
Jack Kilby, the soft-spoken, 6-foot-6 engineer whose invention of the integrated circuit won him the Nobel Prize and launched the digital revolution, died Monday.
June 22, 2005