Robert H. Cushman

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
This article is about the Engineering journalist. For other uses, see Robert Cushman.
Robert H. Cushman
Born
Robert Herman Cushman

(1924-01-26)January 26, 1924
Evanston, Illinois
DiedJanuary 27, 1996(1996-01-27) (aged 72)
Essex, Connecticut
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materProfessional Children's School
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
OccupationElectrical engineering journalist

Robert (Bob) Herman Cushman (16 January 1924 in Evanston, Illinois – 27 January 1996 in Essex, Connecticut)[1] was an American trade magazine journalist who had written extensively across several engineering disciplines, two in particular during the vanguard of rapid technological advances and ensuing market boom of their respective technologies. In the late 1950s, at the beginning of the Space Race, Cushman had been an editor at Aviation Week & Space Technology.[2] From 1962 to the late-1980s, he was an editor for Electronic Design News. He started out at EDN as the East Coast editor and soon rose to Special Features Editor covering microprocessing. Cushman was widely known within the microprocessing industry for his influential writings in Electronic Design News about microprocessors during its infancy in the early 1970s, through its period of rapid growth and development in the 1980s. His articles, collectively, chronicle the birth and early milestones of microprocessors and, at the time, helped bridge technical development with applications. Citations of his work are prevalent in documents produced by academicians, engineers, the military, and NASA.

At the time of Cushman's death, he and his wife were residents of Old Lyme, Connecticut. Before retiring, he and his wife had been a long-time residents of Port Washington, New York.

Early career

Cushman earned a high school diploma in 1942 from the

Reed Elsevier and, at the time, parent of EDN
.

Growing up

Cushman had been a child actor. At the age of fifteen — from January 21, 1939, to June 1, 1939, and from July 17, 1939, to September 23, 1939 — Cushman had acted in the Broadway play,

RKO Roxy Theatre. The play ran for 244 performances.[6]

Selected articles

ISSN 0005-2175
  • "GE Bids for Helicopter Market With T58", Vol. 64, No. 23, June 4, 1956, pg. 60
  • "Cornell Instruments For Shock Tubes", Vol. 65, No. 18, October 29, 1956, pg. 80
  • "Rocket-Tube Ejector Adds To Escape Margin For Jet Pilots", Vol. 65, No. 20, November 12, 1956, pps. 71–77
  • "Lewis Pushes Work on Rocket Engines", Vol. 66, No. 22, June 3, 1957, pps. 10–83
  • "Air Problems Attacked in Mid-Manhattan", Vol. 67, No. 1, July 8, 1957
  • "F-103 Demise Clouds Dual Cycle Future", Vol. 67, No. 10, September 9, 1957, pg. 101
  • "GM Seeks 'Fluidity' in $60 Million Engine R&D Facility", Vol. 67, No. 14, October 7, 1957
    OCLC 247469174
  • "Hypersonic Tunnels Yield Practical Data", Vol. 67, No. 16, October 21, 1957
  • "Scientist Study Mach 7 Ramjet Theory", Vol. 68, No. 1, January 6, 1958, pps. 57–59 & 63
Automatic Control, Reinhold Publishing Company —
OCLC 2066225
  • "Vanguard Control Demonstrates Minimum Hardware Approach", Vol. 9, No. 1, July 1958, pps. 16–20
  • "Are Adaptive Servos Here?" 1959
  • "Biophysical Feedback For Space Systems", Vol. 10, No. 6, June 1959, pps. 14–24
American Society for Metals
  • "Casting Techniques Developed For The Electronic Industry", 1966
    OCLC 246210225
16th Annual Wire & Cable Symposium,
Atlantic City
Symposium Record —
OCLC 637779919, 220759147
International Electronic Circuit Packaging Symposium (IECPS), Western Electronic Show and Convention (WesCon)
Sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers & the Western Electronic Manufacturers Association
Western Electric Company
)
  • "Fluxless Metal Joining", Vol. 10, January 1967
ISSN 0005-8580
ISSN 0012-7515
March 1971 — EDN renamed EDN/EEE
EDN's Annual Chip Directories
  • Fourth Annual Microprocessor Directory, Vol. 22, No. 21, November 20, 1977, pps. 44–83
  • EDN's Seventh Annual μP/μC Chip Directory, Vol. 26, No. 20, November 5, 1980
  • EDN's Eighth Annual μP/μC Chip Directory, November 11, 1981, pg. 100
  • EDN's Tenth Annual μP/μC Chip Directory, Vol. 28, No. 22, November 10, 1983, pps. 111–256
  • EDN's Eleventh Annual μP/μC Chip Directory, Vol. 29, No. 23, November 15, 1984
  • EDN's 14th Annual
    OCLC 4928712791

Professional affiliations and hobbies
Selected stage plays & screenplays
  • Judson Mansions or The Barbarians, A melodrama in three acts, 30 March 1950[7]
  • The Scientific Approach to Getting Married in a Hurry, a filmplay by Robert Herman Cushman, 7 November 1963[8]

Ancestry and family

Notable ancestry

Cushman, by way of his father, Clifford Howell Cushman (1891–1974), was a tenth-generation lineal descendant of Thomas Cushman (1608–1691) and wife, Mary Allerton (1616–1699) — settlers of the Plymouth Colony. The lineage is all paternal, hence the same surname.[a] Mary Allerton was a passenger on the Mayflower, the first ship to arrive in Plymouth in 1620. Thomas Cushman was a passenger on the Fortune, the second ship to arrive in 1621. Cushman was also an eleventh generation lineal descendant of Francis Eaton, also a passenger on the Mayflower and settler of Plymouth[b] — a fourth generation female descendant of Francis Eaton married a third generation descendant of Robert and Mary Cushman.[9]

Nowadays, tens of millions of Americans have at least one ancestor from the Plymouth Colony, many of whom affiliated with the Mayflower Society. But, according to Galton-Watson probability, only a fraction of that number have an unbroken chain of paternal lineage maintaining the same surname.

Family

Cushman married Rose Katherine Clausing October 4, 1952, in Butler County, Ohio. They had a daughter and a son and remained married forty-three years, until his death.[3]

Notes and references

Notes

  1. ^ Thomas Cushman & Mary Allerton (1st), Thomas Cushman (2nd: 1637–1726), Benjamin Cushman (3rd: 1691–1770), Caleb Cushman (4th: 1715–1778), Gideon Cushman (5th: 1750–1845), Caleb Cushman (6th: 1779–1859), Alexander Cushman (7th: 1812–1880), Herman Alexander Cushman (8th: 1863–1933), Clifford Howell Cushman (9th: 1891–1974), Robert Herman Cushman (10th: 1924–1996)
  2. ^ Francis Eaton & Christian Penn (1st), Benjamin Eaton, Sr. (2nd: 1627–1712), Benjamin Eaton, Jr. (3rd: 1664–1739), Sarah Eaton (4th: 1695–1737, married to Benjamin Cushman; 1691–1770), Caleb Cushman (5th: 1715–1778), Gideon Cushman (6th: 1750–1845), Caleb Cushman (7th: 1779–1859), Alexander Cushman (8th: 1812–1880), Herman Alexander Cushman (9th: 1863–1933), Clifford Howell Cushman (10th: 1891–1974), Robert Herman Cushman (11th: 1924–1996)

References

  1. ^ a b "Robert Cushman, Resident's Father", Wilton Bulletin (Connecticut), January 31, 1996, pg. 2A
  2. OCLC 2428096, 22589369
  3. ^
    New York Times
    , January 30, 1996
  4. ISSN 0096-0810
  5. ^ Electronic Industries, Caldwell-Clements, Bristol, Connecticut (publisher), Vol. 21, No. 1, 1962, pg. 25
  6. ^ The American Way, Playbill Vault, Playbill, Inc. (accessed 20 February 2013)
  7. OCLC 865652050 (all editions), 1048536425
    .
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert_H._Cushman&oldid=1202512757"