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    Bendix Corporation is an American manufacturing and engineering company which, during various times in its existence, made automotive brake shoes and systems...
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    The Bendix G-15 is a computer introduced in 1956 by the Bendix Corporation, Computer Division, Los Angeles, California. It is about 5 by 3 by 3 feet (1...
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  • The Bendix G-20 computer was introduced in 1961 by the Bendix Corporation, Computer Division, Los Angeles, California. The G-20 followed the highly successful...
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    A Bendix drive is a type of engagement mechanism used in starter motors of internal combustion engines. The device allows the pinion gear of the starter...
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    County Parks and Recreation Department. The name Bendix Woods originates from the Bendix Corporation which donated the land to the county for the creation...
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  • Marietta was subject to a hostile takeover bid by the Bendix Corporation, headed by William Agee. Bendix bought the majority of Martin Marietta shares and...
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  • 000. In 1907 Vincent Bendix founded the Bendix Corporation of Chicago to manufacture automobiles, called Bendix Motor Buggies. After two years and producing...
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  • Bendix Helicopters, Inc. was the last company founded by prolific inventor Vincent Bendix, in 1943 in Connecticut. It ceased operations in 1949. It built...
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    AlliedSignal (category Bendix Corporation)
    1958, then simply the Allied Corp. in 1981. Allied merged with the Bendix Corporation in 1983, beginning the company's involvement in aerospace. The Signal...
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  • founder of Bendix Corporation, began in 1931 as part of the National Air Races. Initial prize money for the winners was $15,000. The last Bendix Trophy Race...
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  • renamed Allied Corporation in 1981. Its next acquisition, in 1983, was Bendix Corporation, an aerospace and automotive firm. By 1984, Bendix was generating...
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    by Bendix Corporation in 1982. In response, Martin Marietta started buying Bendix stock with the aim of assuming control over the company. Bendix persuaded...
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  • 1920s and operated under the same leadership until it was sold to the Bendix Corporation in 1969. The company began in 1910 in Stockton, California as the...
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    1936, the first Bendix-Stromberg pressure carburetor (a model PD12-B) was installed and flown on an Allison V-1710-7. The Bendix Corporation marketed three...
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  • television actor Bendix Corporation Bendix Helicopters Knuth–Bendix completion algorithm Bendix G-15 computer Bendix G-20 computer Bendix affiliation Philco...
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    Unifon (category Bendix Corporation)
    have Unifon symbols in Private Use Areas. Under a contract with the Bendix Corporation, Malone created the alphabet as part of a larger project. When the...
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    Fluxgate compass (category Bendix Corporation)
    1937, the fluxgate compass was invented by the Eclipse-Pioneer Division of Bendix in 1943. "Chapter 8: Flight Instruments". Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical...
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  • Autolite (category Bendix Corporation)
    Ford, and Ford was forced to sell its Autolite–related assets to the Bendix Corporation by 1973. At that point, Ford replaced the Autolite brand with the...
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    four-door, five-passenger sedan that was designed by Alfred Ney of the Bendix Corporation in South Bend, Indiana. Although considered a proof-of-concept vehicle...
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  • The largest division of Amphenol is Amphenol Aerospace (formerly Bendix Corporation) in Sidney, New York. This is the birthplace of the MIL-DTL-38999...
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    Mary Cunningham Agee (category Bendix Corporation people)
    management position as executive assistant to the CEO of the Bendix Corporation, William Agee. At Bendix, she was quickly promoted to Vice President of Strategic...
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    W. Michael Blumenthal (category Bendix Corporation people)
    by 1976 Duns Review rated Bendix as "one of the five best-managed companies in the U.S.": 27  While Blumenthal headed Bendix, newly elected President Carter...
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    William Agee (category Bendix Corporation people)
    was appointed president and chief executive officer (CEO) of the Bendix Corporation. From 1988 to 1995, Agee was the chairman, president, and CEO of Morrison-Knudsen...
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    designed and constructed for the U. S. Air Force by the Bendix Communications Division, Bendix Corporation. Commencing operations in 1969, the AN/FPS-85 was...
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    RIM-8 Talos (category Bendix Corporation)
    Bendix RIM-8 Talos was a long-range naval surface-to-air missile (SAM), among the earliest SAMs to equip United States Navy ships. The Talos used radar...
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    RIM-50 Typhon (category Bendix Corporation)
    system. The Typhon system, developed under a contract awarded to the Bendix Corporation, would overcome this through the use of the AN/SPG-59 electronically...
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    Henri Perrot (category Bendix Corporation people)
    1961 in Monte Carlo. Bendix Corporation Vincent Bendix Henri Rougier Bendix Brakes, History Archived 2 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine Bendix History...
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  • radar by Sierra for C-130 AN/APN-179 Doppler navigational radar by Bendix Corporation for EC-47 AN/APN-182 improved AN/APN-130 Doppler navigational radar...
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    Westinghouse Air Brake Company (category Bendix Corporation)
    1930 Westinghouse Automotive Air Brake Company merged with Bendix Corporation to form the Bendix-Westinghouse Automotive Air Brake Company. Between 1967...
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    VP for General Motors) KE Lyman; Development engineer (Formerly of Bendix Corporation and Borg-Warner) Ben Parsons; Tucker engineering VP and chief engineer...
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