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ALL IN A LIFETIME
by Ivan A Getting.

Webeditiors note: This excellent autobiography gives an insiders view of a career in military electronics research and development.
In Chapter 2 Dr. Getting tells of his first visit to the the Signal Corps Radar Laboratory on December 6, 1941 with the XT-1.
There he would meet Drs. John Marchetti and Harold Zahl and form war-time working relationships that would become years of friendship.

FIRST EDITION - Gift of Author to Infoage
Copyright © 1989 by Ivan A. Getting
Published by Vantage Press, Inc.
516 West 34th Street, New York, New York 10001
Manufactured in the United States of America
ISBN: 0-533-08220-x
Library of Congress Catalog Card No.: 88-90336

Contents
Introduction    ix
Part I. Education of a Slovak-American
    1.    Roots in Slovakia    3
    2.    My Parents and the Fight for Czechoslovak Independence    11
    3.    Boyhood—Life in Postwar Central Europe, 1919–20    20
    4.    The Edison Contest of 1929 and M.I.T., 1929–33    30
    5.    Rhodes Scholarship—Oxford and England, 1933–35    42
    6.    The Society of Fellows—Harvard, 1935–40    65
    7.    Czechoslovak Connection: Nazi, 1935–40; Communist, 1945–50    82

Part II. Scientists in World War II and the Korean War
    8.    Development of the Army AA Radar, the SCR-584    101
    9.    The SCR-584 Radar at War    129
   10. Development of the Army Coast Radar, the SCR-598    154
   11. Development of the Navy Gun Fire Control System MK-56    161
   12. The War Years: Rad Lab, NDRC, OSRD, and the War Department   187
   13. The Transition Years, 1945–50, Science in Limbo    203
   14. The Korean War, 1950–51, and Partial Mobilization of Science   223

Part III. Raytheon: The Emergence of High Tech Corporations, 1951—60
    15.   Magnetrons, Transistors, and Microwave Cooking   247
    16.   CW Radar, the Sparrow III and Hawk Missile Systems   275
    17.   Innovation and Government Contracting   295
    18.   Management Maturization and Impact of Geneen   318

Part IV. Evolving Science—Military Relationship, 1951—78
    19.   The USAF and the Scientific Advisory Board   345
    20.   The Navy and the Undersea Warfare Committee and the Birth of the Polaris Missile System    361

Part V. The Aerospace Corporation ICBM and Military Space Systems
    21.   Startup of The Aerospace Corporation, July 1960   385
    22.   Relationships with Industry and Government , Part 1   411
    23.   Relationships with Industry and Government, Part 2   438
    24.   ICBM, MIRV, Arms Control, and ABM Penetration   473
    25.   Space Launch Vehicles and Manned Flight   499
    26.   Military Observation Satellites and Antisatellite Systems 533
    27.   Military Communication Satellite Systems   549
    28.   Navigation Satellites and Development of Naystar   574

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