Texas Instruments Inc. Texas Instruments began its corporate life in 1930 as a company called Geophysical Service, which was a petroleum-exploration firm founded by a couple of eager men by the names of Dr. J. Clarence("Doc") Karcher and Eugene McDermott. They used seismology to find oil. It entered the defense electronics business during the 1940's and performed contracts for the Army and Navy Signal Corps. The company's name changed to Texas Instruments in 1951 and bought …showed first 75 words of 662 total…

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