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In 1922, Vannevar Bush, scientist and professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), along with engineer and physicist Laurence K. Marshall, and scientist Charles G. Smith, founded the American Appliance Company in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Jul 1, 2021 · In June of 1950, Laurence K. Marshall, former chairperson of Raytheon Company, and his 17-year-old son John trekked into the deserts of Southern Africa seeking the famed “Lost City of the Kalahari.” They did not find a lost city, but this expedition began a life-long relationship between the Marshall Family and people of the Kalahari Desert.
Laurence K. Marshall was a founder of Raytheon Company and served as the first chairman of the Raytheon board of directors from 1948-1950. He served as president fr. om 1928-1948. In 1922, Mr. Marshall, with Vannevar Bush and Charl.
Nov 8, 1980 · Laurence K. Marshall, a founder and former president of the Raytheon Company, an international, diversified electronics concern, died Wednesday at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Mass.
Laurence K. Marshall was the founder who founded Raytheon Co. in 1922 and served as its Chairman from 1922 to 1980. He also worked as a Member-Tufts Delta Chapter at The Tau Beta Pi Association.
Six days inching through heavy sand, a truck falling into an aardvark hole, blazing days and frozen nights: the Marshalls weren’t on a typical family vacation when they set out into the Kalahari Desert, in present-day Namibia, in June 1951. Laurence Marshall was freshly retired from Raytheon; his wife, Lorna, taught English at Mount Holyoke.
Nov 15, 2023 · The collection of photographic and written records, created by the Laurence K. and Lorna J. Marshall family, documents how Indigenous peoples of the Kalahari Desert region—primarily the Ju/’hoansi, G/ui, and Naro—lived prior to extended contact with the Western world.
