Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of an interior view of the Ramo-Wooldridge Data Reduction Center in Los Angeles, 1950-1960. A line of computers lines the wall of the circular room at left. Four men in suits can be seen looking at displays and printed data. At right, a map of the computer can be seen on a large sign. Small rectangular lights run along the ceiling near the perimeter of the room. The center was operated as a function of Space Technology Laboratories, an autonomous division of the Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation and was used for converting telemtered missile and other performance data into useable form, a highly specialized field of technology. Photoprint reads: "The Ramo-Wooldrige date reduction center, operated as a function of Space Technology Laboratories, an autonomous division of the Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation telemetered missile and other performance data into usable form, a highly specialized field of technology".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w 21 x 26 cm. negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs
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