Librascope was a division of General Precision, Inc. located in Glendale, California. It was founded in 1937 by Lewis W. Imm to build and operate theater equipment, and it was acquired by General Precision in 1941. During World War II it worked on improving aircraft load balancing. Later Librascope became a manufacturer of early digital computers sold in both the business and defense markets, and it hired Stan Frankel, a Manhattan Project veteran and early ENIAC programmer, to design the LGP-30 desk computer in 1956. Librascope was eventually purchased by the Singer Corporation.
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Librascope was a Glendale, California, division of General Precision, Inc. (GPI).
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