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Robert C. Sprague
Robert C. Sprague
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This was the first of a lifetime total of nineteen patent awards. This first patent led to the birth of the Sprague Specialties Company, which he and his wife, Florence, operated out of their Quincy, Massachusetts, home, using $25,000 in capital raised through limited personal savings and the sale of stock to a few friends and relatives.
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In 1954 he was appointed by President Eisenhower as a consultant on continental defense to the National Security Council and a consultant to the Technological Capabilities Pane} of the Science Advisory Committee to the Office of Defense Mobilization (Killian Committee)
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He served on the board of directors for the First National Bank of Boston, Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, MITRE Corporation, Micro-Bit Corporation, Electrostatic Research Corporation, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and Associated Industries of Massachusetts. He was a trustee of Hudson Institute.
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