Rockwell also produced single-chip microcomputers with resident Forth kernels, the R65F11 and R65F12.

Rockwell also built yachts and business jets and owned large amounts of real estate.

Rockwell also acquired the privately held Allen-Bradley Company for $ 1. 6 billion in February 1985 — $ 1 billion of which was cash to the owners of Allen Bradley — and became a producer of railroad electronics.

Rockwell International also spun off its automotive division as a publicly traded company, Meritor Automotive, based in Troy, Michigan, which then merged with Arvin Industries to form Arvin Meritor.

Rockwell was also commissioned to illustrate over 40 books including Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.

* In the film Empire of the Sun, a young boy ( played by Christian Bale ) is put to bed by his loving parents in a scene also inspired by a Rockwell painting — a reproduction of which is later kept by the young boy during his captivity in a prison camp (" Freedom from Fear ", 1943 ).

He also advised his students, “ It isn ’ t the subject that counts but what you feel about it ” and “ Forget about art and paint pictures of what interests you in life .” In this manner, Henri influenced Hopper, as well as notable future artists George Bellows and Rockwell Kent.

Grandma Moses also appears on the far left edge in the Norman Rockwell painting Christmas Homecoming, which was printed on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post of December 25, 1948.

The city also has two charter schools ( The Ranches Academy, grades K-6 and Rockwell Charter High School, grades 7-12 ).

Several other industrial companies also have locations in Cambridge, including Process Group Inc., Gerdau Ameristeel, ATS Automation Tooling Systems, Loblaw Companies Limited, Challenger Motor Freight Inc., Sutherland-Schultz Inc., Canadian General-Tower Ltd., iQor, Frito-Lay Canada ( formerly Hostess ), Babcock and Wilcox, Northstar Aerospace, Rockwell Automation, Com Dev and Northern Dynamics.

Sumlock-Anita Electronics also assembled in Britain some of the Rockwell hand-held calculators, including Rockwell models 8R, 10R, 18R, 20R, 21R, 30R, 31R.

The ascender of the Rockwell " t " is also cut at a sharp angle not to be found in the Stymie typeface.

The business unit also developed a small business jet version of its service in a partnership with Rockwell Collins.

North American Aviation, largely a spacecraft manufacturer, and also tied almost entirely to the Space Shuttle, merged with the Rockwell Corporation in 1966 to form the North American Rockwell company ( which several years later became Rockwell International ), with Rocketdyne as a major division.

** Rockwell Collins, a communications and aviation electronics company that also descended from Rockwell International

** Rockwell Semiconductor, a semiconductor company that also descended from Rockwell International, now known as Conexant

Tim Curry and Sam Rockwell also co-star.

He and Michael also collaborated with Rockwell, both providing guest vocals on his 1984 hit single, " Somebody's Watching Me ".

In 1959, his wife Mary died unexpectedly, and Rockwell took time off from his work to grieve.

Doolittle took a leave of absence in October 1917 to enlist in the Signal Corps Reserve as a flying cadet ; he ground trained at the University of California School of Military Aeronautics, and flight-trained at Rockwell Field, California.

In October 1922 he was sent back to Rockwell, now a service depot, as base commander and encouraged an aerial refueling, the first in history, that took place eight months later.

Boeing bought Rockwell International's aerospace business in 1996, and took over much of the facility for aerospace manufacturing.

But until The Simpsons took off, said Alex Rockwell, a vice president of the Henson organization, ' people thought it was a crazy idea.

Rockwell chose not to pursue IMS as a marketable product but IBM, which had served as a support contractor during development, subsequently took over the product and was successful in further developing it for market.

The British aviation company of Britten-Norman acted as distributors for Snow's aircraft and later took an equity stake in the company The company was purchased by the Aero Commander division of North American Rockwell in 1965.

At its apex in the 1990s, Rockwell International was No. 27 on the Fortune 500 list, with assets of over $ 8 billion and sales of $ 27 billion.

Norman Rockwell published a total of 323 original covers for The Saturday Evening Post over 47 years.

Norman Rockwell was a prolific artist, producing over 4, 000 original works in his lifetime.

* In 1967, it was the site of a one-day standoff between members of the American Nazi Party and police and military personnel over the group's attempt to bury their leader George Lincoln Rockwell in the local National Cemetery.

In 1964, during a discussion on water sports over a brandy at his home in Southern California, RAND Corporation aeronautical engineer Jim Drake and his former Rockwell boss and now good friend Fred Payne, who worked at The Pentagon, discussed options for creating a wind-powered water-ski which would allow Payne to travel on the Potomac River.

This was followed by the 1985 acquisition of Allen-Bradley by Rockwell International Corporation, with a significant portion of the proceeds going into the expansion of The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, which saw its assets rise from $ 14m to over $ 290m.

The Promethean bearer of enlightenment ( known informally around the old Modern Library offices as the " dame running away from Bennett Cerf ") was redesigned several times over the years, most notably by Rockwell Kent.

From there, trains operate over street level tracks between Leland and Eastwood Avenues to Rockwell Street, then ramp up to the elevated structure for the rest of the trip.

In 1999, in an exhibit entitled Drew: Art of the Cinema, Struzan had over 65 pieces of his artwork presented at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

( A major disagreement between Rockwell and NASA over engine choice likely contributed to the decision.

In addition to 574 original works of art by Rockwell, the museum also houses the Norman Rockwell Archives, a collection of over 100, 000 various items, which include photographs, fan mail, and various business documents.

I could not help regarding this ‘ Church ’ as a colossal steam engine which had suddenly realized its superiority over its engineers and ... had declared once for all not only its independence but its despotism .” Furthermore, “ t is very well known in Salt Lake City that no man lives there who would not be dead tomorrow if Brigham willed it so .” Ludlow spent considerable time with Orrin Porter Rockwell, who had been dubbed the “ Destroying Angel ” for his supposed role as Brigham Young ’ s assassin of choice.

Noteworthy artists and photographers contributing over the years are Ansel Adams, Harrison Cady, Joseph Csatari, Salvador Dalí, Philippe Halsman, Norman Rockwell, and Jerome Rozen.

With his tomato commandos, Professor Gangreen seeks to attack the nearby prison where he will break out his imprisoned ally Jim Richardson ( Rick Rockwell ), then take over the United States under the subjugation of his killer tomatoes and installing Richardson as President of the United States.

Creedon has served on the Boards of Directors of various business corporations over the years including ArvinMeritor, Melville, Nynex and New York Telephone Company, Praxair, Rockwell International, Sonat, St. Regis Paper and Union Carbide and on the Advisory Board of the Firemark Global Insurance Fund.

The first successful calculators with LCDs were manufactured by Rockwell International and sold from 1972 by other companies under such names as: Dataking LC-800, Harden DT / 12, Ibico 086, Lloyds 40, Lloyds 100, Prismatic 500 ( aka P500 ), Rapid Data Rapidman 1208LC.

Historical industries in the area included a Rockwell International plant on Route 20 on the western side of Ashtabula that manufactured brakes for the Space Shuttle program and the extrusion of depleted and enriched uranium at the Reactive Metals Extrusion plant on East 21st Street.

* Allen-Bradley, a line of industrial control products, manufactured by Rockwell Automation

It is related to the later 6545 manufactured by MOS Technology ( Commodore Semiconductor Group ) and Rockwell ( in two variations ) and was cloned as the Hitachi 46505 ( which was used in Videx's UltraTerm card ).

In the UK, Crunchie bars are manufactured at a dedicated plant on a Rockwell Automation distributed control system ( DCS ), which replaced the original Ferranti ARGUS DCS system prior to 2000.