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.

In 1913, the nineteen-year-old Rockwell became the art editor for Boys ' Life, published by the Boy Scouts of America, a post he held for three years ( 1913 – 1916 ).

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

His annual contributions for the Boy Scouts ' calendars between 1925 and 1976 ( Rockwell was a 1939 recipient of the Silver Buffalo Award, the highest adult award given by the Boy Scouts of America ), were only slightly overshadowed by his most popular of calendar works: the " Four Seasons " illustrations for Brown & Bigelow that were published for 17 years beginning in 1947 and reproduced in various styles and sizes since 1964.

In 1978 the U. S. State Department published a memorandum of conversation between Mr. Stuart W. Rockwell of the Office of African and Near Eastern Affairs and Abdel Monem Rifai, a Counselor of the Jordan Legation on 5 June 1950.

Norman Rockwell ’ s first cover for Life, " Tain ’ t You ", was published May 10, 1917.

A graphic novel, illustrated by Steven Ross and adapted by Scott Rockwell, was published by Corgi in 1992.

In January 1990 Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. published " The Case for Paleo-libertarianism " in Liberty magazine.

* The museum houses a collection of 321 The Saturday Evening Post covers illustrated by Norman Rockwell and published in Philadelphia by the Curtis Publishing company.

During his retirement, Kraft has consulted for numerous companies including IBM and Rockwell International, and he published an autobiography entitled Flight: My Life in Mission Control.

Save Freedom of Speech is a color lithograph created in 1942 by Norman Rockwell and published in the Saturday Evening Post as part of a series illustrating the " Four Freedoms.

* 1805: Lalloo Lal's Premsagar published for Fort William College, Calcutta Rockwell

How to Eat Fried Worms is the title of a children's book written by Thomas Rockwell, first published in 1973.

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.

After spending eight months in jail on charges of attempting to assassinate former Missouri Governor Lilburn Boggs, a filthy and emaciated Rockwell traveled to Nauvoo, where he appeared unannounced at a Christmas party at Joseph Smith's home.

* The Escuadrón de Transporte ( transport squadron ) operated 13 Douglas C-47 ' Dakota ' transports, eight Cessna 180 ' Skywagon ' light utility aircraft, seven Cessna 185 ( U-17B ) ' Skywagon ' light utility aircraft, seven Beech 18 ( C-45 ) ' Expeditor ' trainer & utility aircraft, six De Havilland Canada DHC-3 ( U-1A ) ' Otter ' STOL utility transports, five CASA C-212 Aviocar medium transports, two IAI Arava 201 STOL utility transports, two Piper PA-23-250 ' Aztec ' twin-engined light piston utility transports, one Hawker Siddeley HS-125-600B mid-size business jet and one Rockwell Aero Commander 680FL ' Grand ' utility transport.

Within recent times, some libertarians, especially paleolibertarians such as Lew Rockwell and Ron Paul, have voiced concerns pertaining to the traditional " open borders " policy held by most libertarians.

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.

The argument was that the PC was 5x times faster than the Apple, as its INTEL 8086 processor had a clock speed roughly 5x the clock speed of the Rockwell 6502 used in the Apple.

" 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.

A total of 47 artists were involved in the " Eyewitness to Space " program, including Robert Rauschenberg, Lamar Dodd, Norman Rockwell, and Morris Graves.

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.

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 ).

* Florida International University's Wolfsonian museum hosted the Thoughts on Democracy exhibition that displayed posters created by sixty leading contemporary artists and designers, invited to create a new graphic design inspired by American illustrator Norman Rockwell ’ s “ Four Freedoms ” posters of 1943.

It stars Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Tony Shalhoub, Sam Rockwell, and Daryl Mitchell as the cast of a defunct television series called Galaxy Quest, in which the crew of a spaceship embarked on intergalactic adventures.

During the 1980s, Anderson, his CFO Bob dePalma and the Rockwell management team built the company to # 27 on the Fortune 500 list.

* North American Rockwell history on Boeing. com

* Rockwell International history on Boeing. com

* Boeing's Australian website page on Rockwell history

Construction began on Columbia in 1975 at Rockwell International's ( formerly North American Aviation / North American Rockwell, now Boeing North America ) principal assembly facility in Palmdale, California, a suburb of Los Angeles.

NASA chose to build Endeavour from spares rather than refitting Enterprise or accepting a Rockwell International proposal to build two shuttles for the price of one of the original shuttles, on cost grounds.

Rockwell International claimed that it had made no profit on Space Shuttle Endeavour, despite construction costing US $ 2. 2 billion.

Rockwell himself received psychiatric treatment from the analyst Erik Erikson, who was on staff at Riggs.

However, in his later years, Rockwell began receiving more attention as a painter when he chose more serious subjects such as the series on racism for Look magazine.

Rockwell had donated the painting depicted on the cover of the November 3, 1945 Saturday Evening Post to the store in 1948.

* Booknotes interview with Laura Claridge on Norman Rockwell: A Life, December 2, 2001.

On December 8, 1956, two examples on the same broadcast were " Nuttin ' for Christmas ," which became a vehicle for Rocky Rockwell dressed in a child's outfit, and Elvis Presley's " Don't Be Cruel ," which was sung by violinist Bob Lido, wearing fake Presley-style sideburns.