Armour Research Foundation (U.S.)
Biography
Armour Research Foundation (ARF) was one of the first private, not-for-profit contract research laboratories in the United States. Begun in Chicago in 1936 by Armour Institute of Technology (AIT), ARF was acquired by Illinois Institute of Technology in 1940 when IIT was created by the merger of AIT and Lewis Institute. Re-named Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology, it was later reorganized as the IIT Research Institute (IITRI). Under all its iterations, the laboratory conducted research for commercial and government sources, expanding to an international operation. Per IIT President John L. Anderson's April e-newsletter to the campus community, "In 2002, Alion purchased the non-life-science assets of IIT Research Institute.... IITRI remains an IIT-controlled company and is led by David McCormick, who is also professor of biology at the university.... [In March 2010] the university received a cash payment...in exchange for our final holdings of bonds and warrants in Alion...." Source: IIT Archives (Chicago)
Found in 37 Collections and/or Records:
Snow Cruiser expansion collection, 1937-1939
Snow Cruiser film, 1939
Space! film, 1961
Technology Center Events collection, 1948-1972
Technology News slide collection, 1955-1960
35 mm slides apparently produced by or acquired by Illinois Tech students for use in Technology News, the student newspaper. Images document people, buildings, and activities at Illinois Institute of Technology. Slides were found in boxes as shown in the index; slides have been transferred to 3-ring binders as follows: Vol. 1 contains boxes 1 and 2 Vol. 2 contains boxes 3 and 4 Vol. 3 contains boxes 5 and 6.
The Frontier collection, 1938-1970
Willard Hotchkiss papers, 1924-1937
The papers of Willard Hotchkiss in his role as President of Armour Institute of Technology, Chicago, 1932-1937.
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