Boller and Chivens
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Boller and Chivens was an American manufacturer of high-quality telescopes and spectrographs headquartered in South Pasadena, California.
History
Founded about 1946 by Harry Berthold Boller (1915-1997) and Clyde Cuthbertson Chivens (1915-2008).[1] the company was acquired in 1965 by Perkin-Elmer.[2]
In the 1950s, Boller and Chivens collaborated with Perkin-Elmer to develop and manufacture the large-aperture Baker-Nunn satellite tracking camera for the United States Vanguard space satellite program.[3]
In culture
A 41-cm (16-inch) Boller and Chivens Cassegrain reflector originally housed at the Harvard-Smithsonian Oak Ridge Observatory in Massachusetts is available for public use at the National Air and Space Museum's Public Observatory Project on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.[4]
Notes and references
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- ↑ Approximate year of founding is given by Peter Abrahams in a blog posting reproduced at [1] Script error: No such module "webarchive".. Harry Boller and Clyde Chivens were engineers with degrees from California Institute of Technology. See Oral History Transcript - Dr. Ira Bowen, August 26, 1969, at [2] Script error: No such module "webarchive".. (Chivens was in the Class of 1935. See Clyde Chivens obituary, The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, Ca, March 4, 2008. See also California Institute of Technology, Engineering and Science, "News of Classes," Volume 1:4, March 1938, at [3]. Chivens worked in the Office of Scientific Research and Development during World War II. See Folder 2.9 containing OSRD report by Chivens in Guide to the Joseph Foladare Papers, 1943-1946 at [4].) Harry Boller and Clyde Chivens were also associated in a firm called High Vacuum Electronics (later called Kilovac, now part of Tyco Electronics), incorporated in California in 1964. See articles of incorporation at [5] Script error: No such module "webarchive".. A photo of Chivens (left), Boller (center) and Baker-Nunn camera co-developer Joseph Nunn (right) may be viewed at Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".. Birth and death dates from Social Security Death Index.
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- ↑ NASA, Vanguard: A History, Chapter 9, "The Tracking Systems" (see note 17).
- ↑ NASM AirSpace Blog, March 29, 2009. Script error: No such module "webarchive". and NASM Public Observatory Project Script error: No such module "webarchive".
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External links
- www.bollerandchivens.com: a site by former employee Don Winans documenting the products made by Boller and Chivens. (Accessed 23 January 2012.)
- Blog posting asking help identifying details of Boller and Chivens image collection, March 12, 2009. Script error: No such module "webarchive".
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- American companies established in 1946
- Technology companies disestablished in 1965
- Defunct technology companies of the United States
- Telescope manufacturers
- Instrument-making corporations
- South Pasadena, California
- 1940s establishments in California
- 1965 disestablishments in California
- 1965 mergers and acquisitions
- Technology companies established in 1946
- Defunct manufacturing companies based in California