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Varian Associates. Photographs from the Varian Associates records.
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Title:
Photographs from the Varian Associates recordsCreator/Contributor:
Varian Associates., creatorCreator/Contributor:
Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984Creator/Contributor:
Hawkins, J. Allen.Creator/Contributor:
Rumel, Hal.Abstract:
Includes individual and group portraits of Russell Varian and Sigurd Varian (including two by Ansel Adams) and other employees
of Varian Associates. Also includes photgraphs depicting early versions of the klystron and other technologies, as well as
Varian facilities and laboratories in San Carlos and Stanford University.
Date:
ca. 1940-ca. 1970 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caKlystrons -- Photographs
Microwave tubes -- Photographs
Electromagnetic devices -- Photographs
High technology -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- Photographs
Klystrons -- Photographies
Tubes hyperfréquences -- Photographies
Dispositifs électromagnétiques -- Photographies
Technologie de pointe -- Californie -- San Francisco, Région de la baie de -- Photographies
Electromagnetic devices
High technology
Klystrons
Microwave tubes
California -- San Francisco Bay Area
Varian Associates -- Pictorial works
Varian Associates.
Varian, Russell Harrison -- 1898-1959 -- Pictorial works
Varian, Sigurd Fergus -- 1901-1961 -- Pictorial works
Varian, Russell Harrison -- 1898-1959
Varian, Sigurd Fergus -- 1901-1961
Note:
Photographers include Ansel Adams, J. Allen Hawkins and Hal Rumel.
Title and date devised by cataloger.
Transferred from the Varian Associates records (BANC MSS 73/65 c).
Gift ; Of Frances Farquahar; 1972.
Additions: Gift ; Of Varian Associates ; 2002.
Varian Associates was formed in San Carlos, Calif. in 1948 by Edward L. Ginzton, William W. Hansen, Richard M. Leonard, Leonard
I. Shiff, H. Myrl Stearns, Dorothy Varian, Russell H. Varian, Sigurd F. Varian, and Paul B. Hunter with $22,000 of capital
and six full-time employees. Its first major product was the klystron microwave tube, developed through research at Stanford
University in 1937. The company went on to produce important new products in the fields of radio, radar, television, and electro-photography
and eventually became the leading designer and manufacturer of linear accelerators. In 1965 the company merged with Eitel-McCullough.
Varian Associates formally divided into three companies in 1999 turning each of its divisions into a separate public enterprise.
The three resulting corporations were Varian Medical Systems, Varian, Inc., and Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates,
Inc.
Type:
graphicPhotographs.
Pictorial works.
Physical Description:
photoprint
1 folder and 3 oversize folders (ca. 20 photographic prints) : b&w ; 43 x 41 cm or smaller.
Language:
English