Foundations
Qian Xuesen records, early computing, and the beginning of the satellite programme.
7 moments in this segment.
- - Letter from US Army to Qian Xuesen, banning him from secret research. A July 1950 letter notifying Qian Xuesen that his access to military secret research would be revoked.
- - Hsue-shen Tsien at his deportation hearing. Photograph of Qian Xuesen at the U.S. immigration hearing that preceded his eventual return to China. It documents the engineer whose later work in engineering cybernetics and systems thought became central to this Loreline’s early context.
- - Letter from US gov to Qian Xuesen, allowing him to leave the US. A scanned U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service letter notifying Qian Xuesen that he could leave the United States. It is a dated institutional record immediately preceding his return to China and later work in control and systems engineering.
- - Hsue-shen Tsien with his family onboard SS President Cleveland. Los Angeles Times photograph of Qian Xuesen with his family aboard the SS President Cleveland, on the journey to China. It anchors the return of a figure whose 1954 Engineering Cybernetics shaped subsequent Chinese control and systems research.
- - Qian Xuesen - Appointment 1957. Appointment signed by Zhou Enlai appointing Qian Xuesen president of the Fifth Research Institute of the Ministry of National Defense; a document of the institutional setting for Chinese guidance and control work.
- - 歸國後的錢學森. Portrait of Qian Xuesen after his return to China. The source dates the photograph broadly to the late 1950s through the 1960s, matching the period in which he advanced engineering-cybernetics and systems ideas in China.
- - 《军工记忆Ⅰ》第一集 “东方红一号”人造卫星 | CCTV纪录. ’s satellite plan and the engineering behind Dongfanghong-1.
