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Cleveite
Cleveite is an impure radioactive variety of uraninite containing uranium, found in Norway. It has the composition UO2 with about 10% of the uranium substituted by rare-earth elements. It was named after Swedish chemist Per Teodor Cleve.
Cleveit ...
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Clevite, Inc. was a
Cleveland,
Ohio based manufacturing company, founded as the Cleveland Graphite Bronze Company. The company was a leading producer of
Babbit bearings and a significant US government defense contractor. The bearings were licensed in Britain to
Vandervell Products Ltd;
W. A. Robotham
William Arthur Robotham (26 November 1899 - 1980) was a Rolls-Royce executive involved in the development of Rolls-Royce cars, during World War II of tanks and tank engines, and post-war of Rolls-Royce and Bentley cars complete with bodies and th ...
of Rolls-Royce said that "it was an exceedingly difficult task for
Tony Vandervell
Guy Anthony "Tony" Vandervell (8 September 1898 – 10 March 1967) was a British industrialist, motor racing financier, and founder of the Vanwall Formula One racing team.
Motorsport
Vandervell was the son of Charles Vandervell, founder of CAV, l ...
... knowing the American company well".
In 1952 the Cleveland Graphite Bronze Company absorbed the
Brush Development Company Brush Development Company was a manufacturer of Audio equipment, audio, phonographic products and magnetic recording technologies located in Cleveland, Ohio. It was absorbed into Clevite in 1952.
History
The business was founded in 1919 by Alfred ...
and Brush Labs in a merger. In 1953 it acquired 51% of Transistor Products Inc., and with other acquisitions such as the German ''Intermetall'' in 1955 (a company founded in 1952 by pioneering German physicist and developer of the first "European"
transistor Herbert Mataré, and subsequently sold to
telecommunications giant
ITT
ITT may refer to:
Communication
* Infantry-Tank Telephone, a device allowing infantrymen to speak to the occupants of armoured vehicles.
Mathematics
*Intuitionistic type theory, other name of Martin-Löf Type Theory
*Intensional type theory
B ...
in 1965) developed a
semiconductor division.
By 1959, over one-third of Clevite's sales were in electronics, split over four units: Clevite Transistor Prods.; Brush Instruments; Clevite Electronic Components; and Clevite Ordnance. Clevite won defense contracts for some of its products and opened a new ordnance plant in 1967.
[Clevite Corp., ''Encyclopedia of Cleveland History'', Case-Western Reserve University]
/ref> Clevite purchased Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory in 1960 and continued operating it until selling it (again to ITT is it had done with Intermetall) in 1968.
In 1969, Clevite was acquired by Gould-National Batteries,History of Cleveland Graphite Bronze
/ref> a firm one-quarter its size. It adopted the Gould name in the hopes of having better brand recognition in the marketplace.[
]
References
External links
Company history from the Encyclopedia of Cleveland
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