Tektronix
| Tektronix, Inc.
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| legal form | subsidiary |
| founding | 1946 |
| Seat | Beaverton , United States |
| management | Richard McBee (2008) |
| Number of employees | 4360 (2006) |
| Branch | Electronics, measurement technology |
| Website | www.tek.com |
Tektronix is a United States company headquartered in Beaverton , Oregon . In November 2007, the company was acquired by Danaher Corporation for a purchase price of $ 2.8 billion. Following the takeover of Keithley Instruments by Danaher in 2010, Keithley was merged into Tektronix. Today Tektronix is part of the Fortive group. Tektronix employs around 4,360 people.
Tektronix is particularly known for its electronic test equipment and equipment such as oscilloscopes , logic analyzers and mobile test protocol equipment , formerly also graphics terminals .
The company was founded in 1946 by Howard Vollum and Melvin Murdock, who brought the first triggered oscilloscope to market. In 1947 the company had 12 employees and in 1951 it had 250 employees.
The best known are the 5000 and 7000 series of oscilloscopes with three or four slots, as well as the models 465, 475 and 485 from the 1970s and 1980s.
literature
- Winning with People: The First 40 Years of Tektronix , Marshall M. Lee, published by Tektronix, Inc., October, 1986
Web links
- Official company website of Tektronix (English)
- Planting High-Technology Seeds: Tektronix's Role in the Creation of Portland's Silicon Forest ( Memento from May 17, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Heike Mayer. In: Oregon Historical Quarterly , Winter 2005 edition (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ DHR Completes Acquisition of Tektronix . Tektronix. November 21, 2007. Archived from the original on December 25, 2007. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 26, 2007.
