After the end of World War II, returning veterans were happy to beat swords into plowshares (and microwave tubes) on the Stanford campus. From 1946 until 1950,Stanford’s Electronic Research Labconductedbasicresearch in microwave tubes. Although this reseearch would lead to the development of the...
During the cold war thelaunch of Sputnik-1by the Soviet Union in 1957 both traumatized and galvanized the United States. Having the first earth satellite launched by a country that been portrayed as a third-world backwater with a bellicose foreign policy shocked the U.S. into believing it was...