Cecil Howard Green, 102; Co-Founder of Texas Instruments
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Cecil Howard Green, 102, the last living member of the four founders of Texas Instruments, died Saturday in La Jolla of pneumonia.
In December 1941, Green, Eugene McDermott, J. Erik Jonsson and H. Bates Peacock jointly bought a company called Geophysical Service Inc., which they renamed Texas Instruments a decade later.
During World War II, the Dallas-based company produced submarine detection devices for the military. In the 1950s, the founders added electronics manufacturing, which burgeoned once computers became popular.
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