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Raytheon Company: The First Sixty Years (MA) (Images of America)

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Raytheon's history begins in 1922, when the Cambridge company became a major innovator in the electronics industry and moved to become a major contributor of the war effort and beyond. Technology and business writer Earls has produced high-tech stories since the early 1980s, while co-author Edwards is a forty-three-year veteran of Raytheon: together they provide a vivid company history. It's the very local region histories of small cities in Massachusetts where Arcadia really shines.

This book provides a visual history of Raytheon, a company which has produced several notable weapons systems, air traffic control radars and many other products. A pioneer in certain types of tubes, Raytheon did notable work on early tactical surface-to-air missile systems and has a large presence in the corporate landscape. My only disappointment was in the selection of photos (far better photos of Patriot and HAWK missile systems exist). A good book but it's a topic you're already going to have to be interested in to get anything out of it.

This has a bunch of interesting pictures from the early days of the company. Good for showing war time industry also.

Not that much actually historical content beyond the pictures though...fairly incomplete picture overall.