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Parked near Dallas in 1931, this seismic recording truck was undergoing a shakedown test. The car contains equipment designed by J.C. Karcher and Eugene McDermott at J. Erik Jonsson’s laboratory in New Jersey.

TI’s seisMAC processed seismic data. J. Fred Bucy, shown here operating the machine in 1957, later became president of Texas Instruments.

In 1969, Texas Instruments developed laser-guidance systems for missiles. This image shows a technician of the U.S. Navy working on a Paveway laser-guided bomb for an F-117 stealth fighter.

Technology developed by Texas Instruments guaranteed American security during the Cold War. The U.S. Air Force Minuteman II missile shown in this image from 1964 contained more than 2,000 TI circuits, which appear in the inset in the bottom left of…

In 1971, Michael Cochran, an engineer at TI, invented a single-chip microcontroller. Also called a calculator-on-a-chip, it paved the way for TI to manufacture calculators.

In 1941, Geophysical Service, Inc. launched equipment to detect submarines, an area in which it remained active throughout the twentieth century, after the organization became Texas Instruments. The Magnetic Anomaly Detection device was the first…

Four major figures in the early history of Geophysical Service Inc. (GSI) became pivotal to the development of Texas Instruments: J. Erik Jonsson, Cecil H. Green, Eugene McDermott, and J.C. Karcher. This image was taken in 1957, when Jonsson chaired…

This photograph, dated approximately 1968, shows Jack Kilby holding an early circuit board that used integrated circuits.

Texas Instruments was a leader in the development and production of high-speed antiradiation (HARM) missiles, which targeted radar sites for destruction. HARM missiles like the one on this jet first appeared in the 1980s.

GSI settled in Dallas in the 1930s. In 1934, GSI’s laboratory at Newark, New Jersey came to Dallas. The company’s warehouse appears here around that time.