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"In the early 1950's, Elston H. Swanson, then a group supervisor for a well known high technology company on Long Island, New York, together with several of his colleagues, left to form an engineering and manufacturing division of another company. At the time, defense electronics was very active on Long Island, and the new enterprise secured a subcontract from the Sperry Gyroscope Company to design and produce a number of field support and maintenance vehicles for one of Sperry's latest radar units. As part of the contract, the Army delivered over a hundred trucks to the operation. Roosevelt field had just shut down as an operating airport, but construction of the shopping center had not yet begun, so a portion of a runway in the center of the field was leased to store the trucks under 24-hour armed guard. The operation that was to become Instruments For Industry (or IFI for short) was underway.

"Subsequent subcontracts from many of Long Island's large defense firms were obtained, and the company grew and leased several buildings in the Mineola area to house the expanding operations.

"In 1958, Instruments For Industry, Inc. was incorporated, and shortly thereafter consolidated all its activities in a new building in Hicksville, Long Island. By this time the company had grown and was largely a prime contractor for the Air Force, Navy, and Army, providing cutting-edge development of electronic countermeasures equipment.

"Later, in the 1960's, it began to appear that a commercial market was developing for equipment that utilized many of the techniques that the company had pioneered, and the military work was de-emphasized. IFI turned toward becoming a commercial supplier of industrial laboratory equipment for the creation, measurement, control, and containment of high intensity electromagnetic fields. IFI's product line has evolved with attention to the latest technology and an ear to the needs of its customers. By doing so, IFI produced many innovative products that subsequently were taken up by other companies:

     Commercial high power distributed tube amplifiers (1957)
     Broadband, direct reading, E-field sensors (1971)
     Broadband E-field generator (1971)
     Automatic E-field leveling system (1972)
     Commercial TEM Cells (1975)
     Cost saving, dual band amplifiers (1980)
     EMP amplifiers with bandwidths from 1 kHz to 220 MHz (1980)
     200 V/m from 0.01 to 1000 MHz with only two amplifiers (1988)
     Software for comprehensive immunity testing and EMC test room evaluations (1990)
     An automatic, current/voltage, cable injection test (1991)
     Completely air cooled 10,000 Watt amplifier (1994)
     Dual power amplifiers for IEC-801-3 testing (1995)

"Today, IFI is known world wide for its products and its ability to put together specific solutions for its customers. Almost half of the company's sales are to developed and developing countries around the globe. It maintains a modern, well equipped manufacturing and engineering  facility in Ronkonkoma, Long Island.