Sutherlands Lumber and Home Improvement Centers history

In 1960, as part of his Ph.D. dissertation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he produced a movie called Sketchpad: A Man-Machine Graphical Communication System, which for the first time portrayed three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional computer screen.

In 1962 he started a visiting professorship at the University of California at Berkeley.

When in 1966 he returned to Salt Lake City to start the University of Utah's computer science department, he continued his interest in computer graphics and was on the lookout for others with similar interests.

In 1967 Sutherland and Evans talked about collaborating in the relatively new field of computer graphics.

Venrock, a group of investors associated with the famous Rockefeller family, also provided crucial funds for the firm incorporated on May 10, 1968 in Utah.

At its base in an old Army barracks at the University of Utah, E&S produced in 1969 its first product, LDS (Line Drawing System) 1.

By 1972 the firm had developed LDS 2 and other new products but had not generated any profits.

Since 1973, E&S and Rediffusion jointly had sold over 400 simulator systems to civil airlines worldwide.

NOVOVIEW products brought E&S its first profits in 1974 and continued success as the decade progressed.

By 1977, the SP1, NOVOVIEW's successor, was certified by the Federal Aviation Administration and brought in more sales to E&S than all its other simulators combined.

E&S continued to grow after it became a public firm in 1978.

E&S also diversified in the 1980s by beginning to use its technology for entertainment and education. For example, the 1982 movie Tron, a science-fiction tale of human entities living inside a computer at the microchip level, employed some E&S products to create its special effects.

To finance such expanding operations, E&S in 1987 offered investors convertible debentures worth $56 million.

In 1988 E&S also renamed the CT and SP product lines to use the ESIG (Evans & Sutherland Image Generator) prefix.

The offices of president and CEO were turned over to Rodney Rougelot, who would then work with Stewart Carrell, who became chairman of the board in 1991.

In November 1993, E&S and Iwerks Entertainment introduced their jointly produced "Virtual Adventure," a location based system used at theme parks.

In 1994, E&S opened an office in Beijing.

The following year, 1995, the corporation sold two of its CAD/CAM products called CDRS (Conceptual Design and Rendering System) and 3D Paint.

The bottom line: by 1996 almost half of Evans & Sutherland's annual revenues were from international sales.

President/CEO Oyler said in the February 2, 1997, issue of Salt Lake City's Deseret News, "What excites me is the chance to develop at the high end and migrate down to the desktop.

In 2000, the Utah State Legislature enacted a new law that required teaching the importance and history of the American flag and mandating the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in elementary schools (only encouraging it at the secondary level).

Two years later, in 2006, the Utah Legislature created a civic education commission led by the lieutenant governor.

Knowing that historical site visits can have an important impact on students, during the 2013 General Session, the Legislature established funding for field trips to the state Capitol.

The last Social Studies Standards revision process – which includes civic education, or United States Government and Citizenship standards – was completed in Utah in 2016.

A local effort called Better Days 2020 has also recently pushed a public awareness campaign on Utah women’s history and created a companion curriculum for teachers.