GSI - Beaver Brook Park - Littleton, Mass. - June 1978
Construction supervised by R. H. Vanderlippe
GSI
Grason-Stadler and General Radio are laminated together in the pages of history. GR founded in 1915 started the electronics industry and its 86 year run, the longest in history, ended in 2001 when the company was acquired by Teradyne Inc.
Both companies originated in Cambridge, Mass. and GR was the source for test and measurement instruments. Both companies also relocated to West Concord as they expanded and the Boston area was an excellant source of engineers graduating from M.I.T..
A few of General Radio's accomplishments:
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The introduction of one of the world's first portable oscilloscopes
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The production of many high-precision standards for resistance and capacitance
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The commercial production of the stroboscope as the Strobotac
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The commercial production of the sound level meter
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Commercial invention of the binding post.
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Invention of the GR connector
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The Variac variable autotransformer
Rufus L. Grason
Richard H. Vanderlippe
In 1977 Grason-Stadler again became independently owned and emerged as GSI when GenRad consummated the sale of Grason-Stadler to Rufus Grason and Richard Vanderlippe. The company set up operations in a brand new facility located in Littleton, Mass.
GenRad could see into the future and had seized the opportunity to be the first to market a programmable circuit board test system. Its success was so dramatic that the company was seduced to evolve from individual measurement instruments to "ATE" Automatic Test Equipment systems while looking for new complimentary business acquisitions along the way.
In 1970 GS became a wholly owned subsidiary of General Radio, Steve Stadler became CFO and Senior Vice President of GR which went on to reinvent itself as GenRad in 1975 with Rufus Grason VP of the Enviromedics Division.