Talk:Vannevar Bush/Archives/2014/June

Spencer Thermostat Company
I think more might be said about the bimetal thermostat company Bush helped found. While this company is not as well known as Raytheon, it has, and continues to have, a significant role in industry. Bush deserves more credit for his foresight in helping to start it. There is a trace of the corporate history here. Briefly, in 1931, General Plate Company merged with Spencer Thermostat Company of Cambridge, Mass (that Bush helped found), and formed Metals & Controls Corporation. This was later purchased by Texas Instruments, and later still spun off as Sensata Technologies. The snap action disc technology that they pioneered was used not only in thermostats and circuit breakers but even in some keyboards. The Klixon brand continues today. I even imagine that the expertise they brought to TI in bimetal fabrication had a role in the development of the current U.S. bimetal coins. --AJim (talk) 03:41, 2 June 2014 (UTC)