Re: Restoration of Apollo era consoles
the crt monitors are Astronautics Corporation, Wikipedia has an article on them, they specialise in glass cockpits these days and were early pioneers of aerospace display systems.
Some of the consoles had lamson-tube systems, but from what I can glean, the small pneumatic systems were for the digit displays, which used air-operated backlit plastic slides to display each numeral, driven by the RTCC computers of course.
The Houston mission control centre was designed by a Welshman.. Tecwyn Roberts, though a lot of contractors put it together, the major ones being Singer and Philco, AFAIK (ref. Failure is not an option, Krantz)
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