This Dallas-based electronics firm started out as Geophysical Service, an oil exploration company
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Free Flashcards about BUSINESS & INDUSTRY - StudyStack  THIS DALLAS-BASED ELECTRONICS FIRM STARTED OUT AS GEOPHYSICAL SERVICE, AN OIL EXPLORATION COMPANY, TEXAS INSTRUMENTS.
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TEXAS INSTRUMENTS | The Handbook of Texas Online| Texas ...  Texas Instruments, Dallas-based pioneer developer of silicon transistors, ... useful in oil exploration, started the Geophysical Research Corporation as a ... They moved to Dallas in 1930, started a new independent company, Geophysical Service ... Intent on branching out into consumer electronics, chief executive Haggerty...
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Texas Instruments - Wikipedia  Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) is an American technology company that designs and manufactures semiconductors, which it sells to electronics designers and manufacturers globally. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, United States, TI is one of the top ten semiconductor companies worldwide, based on sales ... Geophysical Service, Inc. became a subsidiary of Texas Instruments.
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Texas Instruments` Unit Under The Gun - tribunedigital-chicagotribune  Nov 5, 1985 ... From the lofty euphoria of the early 1980s, Geophysical Service Inc., ... of oil and gas companies have combined to make Geophysical ... Ask Wall Street analysts about Texas Instruments` oil and gas exploration and services business, and ... In 1950, Dallas-based Geophysical Service had become Texas...
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History of Texas Instruments Inc.  FundingUniverse  TI has set a vision to become a premier electronics company providing world class ... 1930: Geophysical Service Inc. (GSI) is founded by Karcher and McDermott. ... in Dallas, Texas, Geophysical Service used a technique for oil exploration ... equipment operations out of view of competitors--they hired J. Erik Jonsson,...
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Hansford County - Oil & Gas Industry - RootsWeb - Ancestry.com  In 1902, J. M. Guffey Petroleum Company (renamed Gulf Oil Corporation in 1907), built a ... it was acquired by Socony (Standard Oil Company of New York) directors, ... In 1924 about one-third of the new wells in Texas were completed in the ..... Shell, Mobil, Amoco, and Gulf undertook expensive carbon dioxide injections in...
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Oil Industry - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.com  In 1933, Standard Oil secured the first contract to drill for oil in Saudia Arabia. Settlers used oil as an illuminant for medicine, and as grease for wagons and tools. ... an effective, cheap oil lamp and made a model that upgraded kerosene lamps. .... sold them to oil companies at a profit of $100 million, thereby adding to his...
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jeopardy/1482_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  COLUMBUS, OHIO | The Standard Oil Company opened the U.S.A.'s first drive-in one of these in Columbus around 1913 | a gas station. right: Sal. Wrong:.
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Texas oil boom - Wikipedia  The Texas oil boom, sometimes called the gusher age, was a period of dramatic change and economic growth in the U.S. state of Texas during the early 20th century that began with the discovery of a large petroleum reserve near Beaumont, Texas. The find was unprecedented in its size and ushered in an age of rapid .... One of the first significant wells in Texas was developed near the town of Oil...
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The Breakup of AT&T  AT&T agreed to break itself up into several firms in 1984. One firm, AT&T, provided long-distance service, and seven other firms ("Baby Bells") provided local...
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Name that Tune - Energy4me  Topic Overview: To locate oil deposits geologists use seismic technology to map the ... Engineers can drill through more than five miles of rock to reach resources at extreme depths at high ... technologies like satellites, global positioning systems, remote sensing devices and 3-D and 4-D seismic ... measure earthquakes.
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Exploration NaturalGas.org  Sep 20, 2013 ... The practice of locating natural gas and petroleum deposits has been ... one who uses technology to find and map underground rock formations. ... to use explosive charges to generate the needed seismic waves. ... of underground formations can be measured to generate geological and geophysical data.
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Thomas Edison - Inventions - HISTORY.com  Find out more about the history of Thomas Edison, including videos, ... for both Western Union Telegraph Company (then the industry leader) and its rivals. ... and the Edison General Electric Co. merged with another company in 1892 to ... He built a large estate and research laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey, with...
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History of Sony - Wikipedia  The next year, he was joined by his colleague, Akio Morita, and they founded a company called Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo (Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation). ... While most Japanese companies were researching the transistor for its military applications, Ibuka and Morita looked to apply it to communications.
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A Brief History of Wells Fargo and Company  How Fast did the Stagecoach Travel? ... Gold mining in California and Oregon: mining techniques, supply and demand, qualities and ... of gold b. The services Wells Fargo agents provided to people from 1852-1918. c. ... In 1850,. Henry Wells and William Fargo founded the American Express Company, with ... Starting Out.
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History of Integrated Circuit(IC)  (Jack Kibly's IC - picture is provided by Texas Instruments Semiconductor Asia) ... Because of his work with Centralab in Milwaukee, Kilby was familiar with the ... brand new Semiconductor Building where Jack Kilby first hit on the idea of the ... It sounds like science fiction, but new breakthroughs are only a short stride away,...
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Microsoft Developing 158 Acres in Westover Hills - Bexar Witness  Dec 22, 2015 ... TxDOT Allocates $90M to Loop 410 ... Technology giant Microsoft Corp. and Austin developer Accord Interests have something in common: they have major ... Even with this transaction, the research park as 450 acres left over. ... Brooks City Base to Diversify: Adding Retail and Charter School Campus .
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History of Texas Instruments Inc.  FundingUniverse  Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) operates as one of the largest semiconductor ... Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, Geophysical Service used a technique for oil exploration ... Toward the end of the 1930s, Geophysical Service began to change its ... During World War II, oil exploration continued, and the company also looked for...
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Web Navigation  This company has revolutionized mobile phone industry. This is the farthest planet from the ... Ranger Station in this state. This company's Accutron watch, introduced in 1960, had a guarantee of accuracy to within one minute a month. ... Our retrieval method, instead, has only one: Navigation. We built a neural net based...
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Business - Ray Sahelian, M.D.  General Electric, since losing its light bulb patents, it has brought to life atomic reactors used to power submarines, In 1892 the Edison Co. merged with the...
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Dallas Love Field - Wikipedia  Southwest Airlines, founded in 1971 and headquartered at Love Field, built its business on selling quick, no-frills trips between Dallas, Houston, and San...