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Present at the Dawn of the Microwave Age Microwave Development Laboratories has been at the forefront of the microwave industry for sixty years, ever since its inception in the years immediately following World War II. The company, started in 1948 by Dr. Henry Riblet, a former mathematics professor and...

Company History Mitsubishi was founded by Yataro Iwasaki in 1870. He began by leasing three steamships, thus founding a transport company and establishing Mitsubishi with a firm base in the shipping industry. Iwasaki chose the three diamond-mark as the emblem for his company. In 1921, when Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Co....

Company History Modular Components National (MCN) was founded in 1981 in Massachusetts by Irka Zazulak and her husband Peter, with a focus on the future of microwave technology, providing quality products and engineering expertise for both the commercial and military markets. Peter who was then an engineer at Raytheon...

Company History Founded in 2001, Modelithics has provided products/services to over 180 corporations, including repeat business with Fortune 500 companies like: Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Du Pont, Motorola, Honeywell, Raytheon, and EMC Corporation, as well as several other industry leaders such as Tyco Electronics, Harris, Cree, Vishay, American Technical Ceramics,...

Company History The late Frederick A. Krehbiel founded the Molex Products Company in Brookfield, Illinois, in 1938. He named the company after Molex, a plastic material he developed, and soon was manufacturing a variety of products from this material, including clock cases, flowerpots, valve wheels and salt tablet dispensers....

Company History The name was chosen because we wanted to show we recognized that our real mission wasn’t just providing hardware, but rather that we were solving a customer’s technical problems. The year 1984 was a good year to start a new microwave amplifier company! We knew this because...

Company History Microwave Journal published its first issue in July of 1958. Founder and Publisher William Bazzy declared that “Our objective is simply to offer a forum to the industry and be the means of communication for the people in this segment of the electronic field.” Led by Editor...

Narda Microwave: 55 years strong In February 1953, just a few months after The Saddlemen became Bill Haley and His Comets, four design engineers armed with a $20,000 engineering services contract formed Nassau Research & Development Associates. From these inauspicious beginnings in the back of a machine shop in...

Company History R&K Laboratory was founded by Reichiro Kobana in August 1977 and began shipping RF double balanced mixers in late 1978. His mission was to develop unique RF and microwave products for academic and commercial applications in Japan. R&K Laboratory became R&K Company Limited in February 1980, when...

Company History As early as 1932, Dr. Lothar Rohde and Dr. Hermann Schwarz, the company’s founders, developed their first measuring instrument, an interference wavemeter. In 1933, they set up shop under the name ‘Physikalisch-Technisches Entwicklungslabor Dr. L. Rohde und Dr. H. Schwarz’ in Munich (renamed Rohde & Schwarz in...