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Polhemus developed magnetic tracking for tracking a pilot's helmet for use with a head-up display. Polhemus received Air Force contracts in the early 1970s.<ref name="b232"/> It faced financial difficulty by late 1973, and the company or its product rights were sold to the [[Austin Company]], which was a conglomerate based in Cleveland, Ohio.<ref name="b232"/>
 
Polhemus developed magnetic tracking for tracking a pilot's helmet for use with a head-up display. Polhemus received Air Force contracts in the early 1970s.<ref name="b232"/> It faced financial difficulty by late 1973, and the company or its product rights were sold to the [[Austin Company]], which was a conglomerate based in Cleveland, Ohio.<ref name="b232"/>
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The company was sold to McDonnell Douglas Corp.
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The company was sold to McDonnell Douglas. It was called the Polhemus Navigation Sciences division of McDonnell Douglas.<ref>https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/167962.165918</ref>
    
Two employees left in 1986 and founded [[Ascension]].<ref name="b232"/>
 
Two employees left in 1986 and founded [[Ascension]].<ref name="b232"/>

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