Texas Instruments Incorporated

occupation:
Designer,
Inventor,
Manufacturer
Nationality:
American
born in:
Dallas, Dallas county, Texas, United States

Founded by John Karcher and Eugene McDermott, as ‘Geophysical Service’. Were first independent firm specializing in reflection seismograph method. 1938 company name changed to ‘Geophysical Service Inc.’. 1939 name changes to Coronado Corporation.

1951 - name changed to Texas Instruments (TI) Incorporated. 1955 - TI Limited (UK) formed. 1959 - merges with Metals & Controls Corp., based in Attleboro, Mass. Merger adds sites in Holland, France, Italy, Mexico, Argentina, Australia.