Columbus has been home to many manufacturing companies, including Noblitt-Sparks Industries ( which built radios under the Arvin brand in the 1930s ) and Arvin Industries, now Meritor, Inc. After merging with Meritor Automotive on July 10, 2000, the headquarters of the newly created ArvinMeritor Industries was established in Troy, Michigan, the home of parent company, Rockwell International.

Four Rooms was a collaborative effort with filmmakers Allison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell, and Robert Rodriguez.

Rockwell International was a major American manufacturing conglomerate in the latter half of the 20th century, involved in aircraft, the space industry, both defense-oriented and commercial electronics, automotive and truck components, printing presses, valves and meters, and industrial automation.

It was the ultimate incarnation of a series of companies founded by Willard Rockwell.

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.

Rocketdyne, which had been spun off by North American in 1955, was re-merged into Rockwell in 1984, and by that time produced most of the rocket engines used in the United States.

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 was a major employer in Southern California, Ohio, Georgia, Oklahoma, Michigan, Texas, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin and western Pennsylvania.

In 2001, what remained of Rockwell International was split into two companies, Rockwell Automation and Rockwell Collins — both publicly traded companies — ending the run of what had once been a massive and diverse conglomerate.

After Rockwell's breakup in 2001, the laboratory was spun off as a semi-autonomous company called Rockwell Scientific, half owned by Rockwell Collins and half owned by Rockwell Automation.

The shuttle was built by Rockwell International's Space Transportation Systems Division in Downey, California.

Atlantis was the fourth operational ( and the next-to-the-last ) Space Shuttle to be constructed by the Rockwell International company in Southern California, and it was delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center in eastern Florida in April 1985.

Endeavour was delivered by Rockwell International Space Transportation Systems Division in May 1991 and first launched a year later, in May 1992, on STS-49.

In 1961 and 1962 George Lincoln Rockwell, the leader of the American Nazi Party, was invited to speak by Elijah Muhammad at a Nation of Islam rally.

The prime contractor for the program was North American Aviation ( later Rockwell International, now Boeing ), the same company responsible for building the Apollo Command / Service Module.

Norman Percevel Rockwell ( February 3, 1894 – November 8, 1978 ) was a 20th-century American painter and illustrator.

Norman Rockwell was born on February 3, 1894, in New York City to Jarvis Waring Rockwell and Anne Mary " Nancy " ( born Hill ) Rockwell.

His earliest American ancestor was John Rockwell ( 1588 – 1662 ), from Somerset, England, who immigrated to America probably in 1635 aboard the ship Hopewell and became one of the first settlers of Windsor, Connecticut.

Rockwell is also closely related to the group LMFAO through his half-brother Redfoo ( Stefan Kendal Gordy, son of Berry Gordy and Nancy Leiviska ) and his nephew SkyBlu ( son of half-brother Berry Gordy IV and his wife Valerie Robeson ).

He was closely associated with the creation of Scouting and the popular look of Boy Scouts in France and Belgium, comparable to the American artist Norman Rockwell.

Through Henri, with whom he became close friends, he also became acquainted with George Bellows, with whom he also became close, and with Rockwell Kent, Edward Hopper, Guy Pène du Bois, Leon Kroll, and a coterie of realist artists with whom he associated.

Based on a newer, slightly more flexible, version of the Asters original Motorola MC6845 video chip, the Rockwell 6545, it worked by adding a new video mode, one with the ability to reprogram an extended, ( 2048 characters instead of 256 characters ) version of the character set, supported by an extended character memory of the video card that did not use one ( 8 bit ) byte per character, but an 11 bit " word ", so it could address each one of the available 2048 unique programmable characters.

" He advised his students, among them Edward Hopper and Rockwell Kent, to live with the common man and paint the common man, in total opposition to Cecilia Beaux ’ s artistic methods and subjects.

This led to alliances between Japanese calculator manufacturers and U. S. semiconductor companies: Canon Inc. with Texas Instruments, Hayakawa Electric ( later known as Sharp Corporation ) with North-American Rockwell Microelectronics, Busicom with Mostek and Intel, and General Instrument with Sanyo.

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.

Arden's character clashed with the school's principal, Osgood Conklin ( played by Gale Gordon ), and nursed an unrequited crush on fellow teacher Philip Boynton ( played originally by future film star Jeff Chandler and, on television, by Robert Rockwell ).

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

* 1916 – The Saturday Evening Post publishes its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting ( Boy with Baby Carriage ).

Col. Willard F. Rockwell made his fortune with the invention and successful launch of a new bearing system for truck axles in 1919.

Timken-Detroit merged in 1953 with the Standard Steel Spring Company, forming the Rockwell Spring and Axle Company.

Pittsburgh-based Rockwell Standard then acquired and merged with Los Angeles-based North American Aviation to form North American Rockwell in September 1967.

Finally, in 1973 the company merged with Rockwell Manufacturing, run by Willard Rockwell Jr., to form Rockwell International.

Rockwell built heavy-duty truck axles and drive-trains in the U. S. along with power windows, seats and locks.

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.

General Douglas MacArthur, Mark Twain, and Norman Rockwell were perhaps the most famous smokers of this type of pipe, along with the cartoon characters Popeye and Frosty the Snowman.

* May 20 – The Saturday Evening Post publishes its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting ( Boy with Baby Carriage ).

In 1961, Rockwell married Molly Punderson, a retired teacher.

Rockwell married his third wife, retired Milton Academy English teacher Molly Punderson, in 1961.

* Philip Boynton ( Jeff Chandler on radio, billed sometimes under his birth name Ira Grossel ); Robert Rockwell on both radio and television ), Madison High biology teacher, the shy and often clueless object of Miss Brooks ' affections.

Rockwell met Murray Rothbard for the first time in 1975, while working for Hillsdale.

Burton Blumert, Rockwell, economist and philosopher David Gordon ( philosopher ) | David Gordon, and Murray Rothbard.

* Lew Rockwell. com-War and Foreign Policy by Murray N. Rothbard

Murray was raised in Newton, Iowa in a Republican, non-collegiate " Norman Rockwell kind of family " that stressed moral responsibility.

Murray was born in Limerick in 1943 and educated at Crescent College, Limerick, Rockwell College, County Tipperary, University College Dublin, and the Honorable Society of King's Inns.

Others, including Murray Rothbard's followers like Lew Rockwell, call themselves paleolibertarians, and consider the religious, isolationist paleoconservatives to be their natural allies, despite a sharp disagreement on trade issues.