Armour Institute of Technology

In 1942, the Armour Institute of Technology sold literally thousands of wire sound recorders to the American military, since the Army intelligence service was experimenting with technology that intercepted foreign radio transmissions and wished to record those transmissions for the purpose of decoding them. 

Hans Tropsch (1889-1935) A German chemist born in German Bohemia (now Czech Republic). From 1920 until 1928 he worked ai the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Coal Research both with Franz Fischer and Otto Roelen. in 1928 he became professor at the Institute for Coal Research in Prague. From 1931 until 1935, he worked in the United States at the Armour Institute of Technology in Chicago. Owing to an illness he returned to Germany in 1935, where he died shortly after his arrival. 

Thorp, C. E. Bibliography of Ozone Technology. Vol. 2. Physical and Pharmacological Properties. Chicago Armour Research Foundation, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1955. 

Preckel, R. E., Ballistics of Catalyst-Modified Propellants, Bulletin of fourth Meeting of the Army-Navy Solid Propellant Group, Armour Research foundation, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago (1948), pp. 67-71. 

DePaul University and Armour Research Foundation of the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, 111. 

J. P. Elliott, The Boron-Carbide System, U.S. AEC Report ARF-2200-12, Illinois Institute of Technology, Armour Research Foundation, Chicago, 1961. 

Initiation of Explosives by Radiant Energy or Energetic Particles, Armour Research Foundation, Project No. A058, Final Report 29, Illinois Institute of Technology Research Institute, AD-106,621, Chicago, Ilk, March 1956. 

Elliott, R. P. (1959). ARF-2120-4, Armour Research Foundation of the Illinois Institute of Technology, Technology Center, Chicago, Illinois. See also (1961). Trans. Am. Soc. Metals 53, 13. 

The first solution-type research reactor for industrial use went into operation in June 1956. The general features of this reactor, which Atomics International built for the Armour Re.scarch Foundation at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, are shown in Fig. 7-2. 

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