BIBLIOGRAPHY 

NASA ELECTRONICS RESEARCH CENTER 

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NASA, 1982. 

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McDougall, Walter A. ... The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the 

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Rhea, John. “ERC is Focal Point of Future Efforts.” Aerospace Technology, 

November 20, 1967, 21:11, 53-6. 

Rollins, Robert H., II. “Closing of the NASA Electronics Research Center: A Study 

of the Reallocation of Space Program Talent.” M.S. Thesis, Alfred P. Sloan 

School of Management, MIT, May 1970, 106-187, in Boyd C. Myers, II. A 

Report on the Closing of the NASA Electronics Research Center, 

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PROCEEDINGS OF ERC SYMPOSIA 

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ERC, 1966. 

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Thompson, William I., III. The Color of the Ocean. Washington: NASA, 1969. 
WORKS RELATED TO SELECTED ERC RESEARCH AREAS 

HOLOGRAPHY 

Caulfield, Henry John, and Sun Lu. The Applications of Holography. New York: 

Wiley-Interscience, 1970. 

Kock, Winston E. Lasers and Holography: An Introduction to Coherent Optics. 

1st ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969. 

Stambler, Irwin. Revolution in Light: Lasers and Holography. Garden City, NY: 

Doubleday, 1972. 

Stroke, George W. An Introduction to Coherent Optics and Holography. 2d ed. 

New York: Academic Press, 1969. 

Zec, Peter. Holographie: Geschichte, Technik, Kunst. Köln: DuMont, 1987. 

COMPUTERS AND SPACE 

Binder, John D. “A Brief History of Computers in Aerospace.” Aerospace 

America, April 1994, 32, 19-20. 

Ceruzzi, Paul E. Beyond the Limits: Flight Enters the Computer Age. Cambridge: 

MIT Press, 1989. 

Hall, Eldon C. Journey to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Guidance 

Computer. Reston, VA: American Institute of Aeronautics and 

Astronautics, 1996. 

Reid-Green, Keith S. “Early Years in Aerospace Computing.” IEEE Annals of the 

History of Computing, Oct.-Dec. 1997, 19, 54-57. 

Wertheim, Margaret. The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from 

Dante to the Internet. London: Virago Press, 1999. 

Williams, Michael R. “’Beyond the Limits: Flight Enters the Computer Age' at the 

National Air and Space Museum.” Technology and Culture, 1990, 31, 838-

45. 
AEROSPACE ELECTRONICS 

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David J. Benney et al, ed. Applied Mathematics, Fluid Mechanics, 

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Scientific, 1988. 

Battle, E. H., A. Tatz, and J. E. Woodward. “Some Early Achievements in 

Landing Guidance Using Mechanically Scanned Pulse-encoded Beams.” 

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, September 1989, 

26, 775-81. 

Mackenzie, Donald. “Stellar-Inertial Guidance: A Study in the Sociology of 

Military 

Technology,” in Everett Mendelsohn, ed. Science, Technology, and the 

Military. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988. 

Mueller, Fritz K. “A History of Inertial Guidance.” Journal of the British 

Interplanetary Society, 1985, 38: 180-192. 

Viterbi, Andrew J. “The Evolution of Digital Wireless Technology from Space 

Exploration to Personal Communication Services.” IEEE Transactions on 

Vehicular Technology, August 1994, 43, 638-43. 

Ward, W. W., and F. W. Floyd. “Thirty Years of Research and Development in 

Space Communications at Lincoln Laboratory.” Lincoln Laboratory Journal, 

1989, 2:1, 5-34. 

Wilkins, David E. B. “From HF Radio to Unified S-Band: An Historical Review of 

the Development of Communications in the Space Age.” Acta Astronautica, 

February 1989, 19, 171-90.