Robert H. Cushman

Cushman earned a high school diploma in 1942 from the Professional Children's SchoolinManhattan. After the start of World War II, he entered the U.S. Navy as a Lt. J.G. Upon earning a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, he served in China. After the war, Cushman, an avid sailor, spent two years as a yacht designer with Philip L. Rhodes,^[3] who later designed the Weatherly. In 1959, after serving as Associate Editor of Automatic Control, Cushman accepted a position as Public Relations Director of Daystrom, Inc., San Diego,^[4] which was acquired by Schlumberger in 1962, but continued to operate as a wholly owned subsidiary.^[5] Cushman had retired as Senior Editor at Cahners Publishing,^[1] a longtime division of Reed Elsevier and, at the time, parent of EDN.

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, The American Way, in the role of Young Alex Hewitt at that RKO Roxy Theatre. The play ran for 244 performances.^[6]

• "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 Mach7Ramjet 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

• "Die Cast and Mechanical Thermal Pulse Termination Techniques", November 29, 1967 OCLC 227466850

Symposium Record — OCLC 499935577 & Advances in Electronic Circuit Packaging — 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

• "Mechanical Thermal Pulse Metal Joining", 7th IECPS at USC, August 22–23, 1966, pps. 4–12 OCLC 41782959, 60178667
• "Mechanical Thermal Pulse Multiple Bonding Techniques", 9th IECPS, August 19–20, 1968

The Engineer (published by Western Electric Company)

• "Fluxless Metal Joining", Vol. 10, January 1967

Bell System Technical Journal — ISSN 0005-8580

• "Lead-Acid Battery Techniques for Bonding the Positive Plates", Vol. 49, No. 7, September 1, 1970, pps. 1419–1446 OCLC 4433598564

March 1971 — EDN renamed EDN/EEE

• "Digital Cartridges — New steps in Right Direction", April 1972, pps. 26–29
• "CMSO Finally Gets It All Together", June 15, 1972 OCLC 4926524909
• "Using Computer Aided Design to Talk to Machines in the Factory", August 15, 1972, pps. 28–32
• "Leapfrog Ahead With Standard-Family MSI/LSI", Vol. 18, No. 7, April 5, 1973, pps. 30–38
• "Designers Guide to Optical Couplers", Vol. 18, No. 14, July 20, 1973
• "Microprocessors Are Changing Your Future — Are You Prepared?" Vol. 18, No. 21, November 5, 1973, pps. 26–32.
• "Understanding the Microprocessor is no Trivial Task", Vol. 18, No. 22, November 20, 1973, pps. 42–49
• "Understand the 8-Bit μP: You'll See a Lot of It", Vol. 19, No. 2, January 20, 1974
• "Don't Overlook the 4-Bit μP: They're Here and They're Cheap", Vol. 19, No. 4, February 20, 1974, pps. 44–50
• "What Can You Do with a Microprocessor?" Vol. 19, No. 6, March 20, 1974, pps. 42–47
• "The Intel 8080: The First of the Second-Generation Microprocessors", Vol. 19, No. 9, May 5, 1974, pps. 30–36
• "Microprocessor Design Series": Four reprints from EDN magazine, Vols. 18 & 19, published by Design News, July 22, 1974
• "How to Get Acquainted With a μP", Vol. 19, No. 18, September 20, 1974, pps. 46–52^{[permanent dead link]}
• "A Very Complete Chip Set Joins the Great Microprocessor Race — Motorola 6800", Vol. 19, No. 22, November 20, 1974, pg. 87
• "Newest μP's Split Into Divergent Paths", Vol. 19, No. 24, December 20, 1974, pps. 31–34
• "Microprocessor Instruction Sets: The Vocabulary of Programming", Vol. 20, No. 6, March 20, 1975, pps. 35–41
• "Exposing the Black Art of Microprocessor Benchmarking", Vol. 20, No. 8, April 20, 1975, pps. 41–46
• "Microprocessor Benchmarks: How Well Does the μP Move Data?" Vol. 20, No. 10, May 20, 1975, pps. 43–48
• "Beware Of The Errors That Can Creep Into μP Benchmark Programs", Vol. 20, No. 12, June 20, 1975, pps. 105–10
• "2-1/2 Generation μPs — $10 Parts That Perform Like Low-End Mini's", Vol. 20, No. 17, September 20, 1975, pps. 36–41
• "Getting Started With Microprocessors on a Shoestring Budget", Vol. 20, No. 19, October 20, 1975, pg. 64
• "How Development Systems Can Speed Up μP Design Process", Vol. 21, No. 8, April 20, 1976. pps. 63–72
• "Bare-bones Development Systems Make Good Learning Tools", Vol. 22, No. 6, March 20, 1977
• "Use Forthcoming One-Chip μC's to Achieve Lower Costs Gracefully", Vol. 23, January 20, 1978
• "Are Single-Chip Microcomputers the Universal Logic of the 1980s?" Vol. 24, January 5, 1979, pps. 83–89
• "The Promise of Analog Microprocessors: Low Cost Digital Signal Handling", Vol. 25, January 5, 1980, pps. 127–132
• "To Get to Know Analog μPs, Simulate Simple Examples", Vol. 25, February 5, 1980, pps. 137–146
• "One-chip μCs, High Level Languages Combine For Fast Prototyping", Vol. 25, No. 14, August 5, 1980, pps. 89–96 OCLC 4928701210
• "Digital Simulation Techniques Improve μP-System Design", Vol. 26, No. 1, January 7, 1981, pps. 142–149 OCLC 4928660815
• "Digital Processing Tools Present Design Challenges", May 13, 1981, pps. 103–109
• "Signal-Processing Design Awaits Digital Takeover", Vol. 26, No. 13, June 24, 1981, pps. 119–128 OCLC 4928661667, 4661381272
• "Digitization Is On The Way For FFT Designs", Vol. 26, No. 15, August 5, 1981, pps. 99–106 OCLC 4928662915
• "Add the FFT to Your Box of Design Tools", Vol. 26, No. 18, September 16, 1981, pps. 83–88
• "As μP/μC Chips Mature, Support Chips Proliferate", Vol. 27, No. 1, January 6, 1982, pps. 155–202 OCLC 4928674427
• "New-Generation CRT-Controller ICs Cut Display Costs, Increase Capabilities", Vol. 27, No. 10, May 12, 1982, pps. 39–46 OCLC 4433265520
• "Digital Signal-Processing ICs ... ", Vol. 27, No. 14, July 16, 1982
• "EDN Product Showcase: ICs and Semiconductors", Vol. 27, No. 14, July 16, 1982
• "Byte-Wide-Memory Standard Gains Adherents as Designers Discover Its Advantages", Vol. 27, No. 15, August 4, 1982, pps. 53–58
• "CMOS Microprocessor and Microcomputer ICs", Vol. 27, No. 19, September 29, 1982, pps. 88–100
• "TTL Enhancements and Extensions", November 24, 1982, pps. 95–102
• "Hands-On Investigations Help Exploit CMOS Designs", Vol. 28, No. 8, April 14, 1983, pg. 13 (7-1/2 pages) OCLC 4926374764, 4660827672
• "Digital Signal Processing Advances Slowly, But Steadily", Vol. 28, No. 14, July 7, 1983, pg. 60–72
• "Hands-On Network-Design Project Gives Insight Into LAN Features", Vol. 29, No. 6, March 22, 1984, pps. 219–232 OCLC 4928688895, 4661412845
• "VLSI-Based LAN-Controller Chip Eases μP-to-Network Interface", Vol. 29, No. 9, May 4, 1984, pps. 207–220 OCLC 4928666410, 4661411667
• "Enhanced μPs Bring New Life to Old Devices", January 1985, pps. 124–138
• "Microprocessor Support Chips Present a Wide Array of Choices", Vol. 30, No. 25, March 7, 1985
• "Third Generation DSPs Put Advance Functions on Chip", Vol. 30, No. 16, July 11, 1985, pps. 59–68
• "Keep Breadboard Simple in Hands-On DSP Projects", September 5, 1985, pg. 225 (10 pages)
• "Support Chips Mature to Upstage the Host Microprocessor", Vol. 31, No. 6, March 20, 1986, pps. 116–167 OCLC 4928696817, 4661423162
• "μP-Like DSP Chips", Vol. 32, No. 18, September 3, 1987, pps. 155–186 OCLC 4928712225
• "New Software Tools Run IBM PC Software on a Variety of 32-Bit μPs", February 18, 1988, pps. 93, 95–97, 100

• Member, International Society of Automation, since the late 1950s
• Cushman filed several patents and copyrights

Selected stage plays & screenplays

• Judson MansionsorThe 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]

Notable ancestry

Cushman, by way of his father, Clifford Howell Cushman (1891–1974), was a tenth-generation lineal descendantofThomas 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 descendantofFrancis 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]