[DOC] [TLE] History of Texas Instruments Inc.  FundingUniverse [PAR] Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) operates as one of the largest semiconductor ... 
Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, Geophysical Service used a technique for oil 
exploration ... Toward the end of the 1930s, Geophysical Service began to 
change its ... During World War II, oil exploration continued, and the company 
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American... [DOC] [TLE] About TI  History  TI.com - Texas Instruments [PAR] 1930s. Geophysical Service Inc., a small oil and gas company, opens in 1930. ... 
We begin applying signal processing technologies to submarine detection, then 
... Instruments Incorporated, entering the semiconductor industry by inventing the 
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integrated circuits, pocket calculators, and semiconductor microprocessors, 
produces a wide ... in oil exploration, started the Geophysical Research 
Corporation as a ... GSI began manufacturing military electronics for the 
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PULSE: Texas -- A special report; Slow but Steady Revival After Going Bust in 
Texas ... Even the construction industry, which thrived in the oil boom of the .... A 
large drilling-services company based in Dallas, the Halliburton... [DOC] [TLE] Download as a PDF - CiteSeerX [PAR] Shockley Semiconductor, a West Coast start-up, sought to ... The Siltec 
Corporation, based in Silicon .... At Bell Labs, for much of the 1930s Teal was 
assigned to the Electro-Optical .... machine, a 'crystal puller,' and with it made 
their first single crystals of high purity .... The firm's origins were in the oil 
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this year, and is not far from its record high. ..... industry began to establish itself, 
and ... Through the 1930s, both Phillips and Conoco enlarged ... Resources, 
another Houston-based oil and gas company, for $35.6 billion in... [DOC] [TLE] Norton-Section B - RRI [PAR] The current stage, Internet-Enabled Systems, began about 1994. .... Shockley 
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Dallas-based Texas Instruments invented the integrated circuit in... [DOC] [TLE] History Of 'New Energy' Invention Suppression Cases - Rense [PAR] His method began to look so promising that the oil industry and their allies in the 
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two Dallas inventors, discovered that a magnetic resonance amplifier may be ..... 
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Question: This Dallas-based maker of semiconductors got its start in the 1930s as an oil exploration company
Answer: Texas Instruments