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Yoyodyne is the name of several companies, both in fiction and real life.

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Yoyodyne in fiction

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Yoyodyne is a fictional defense contractor introduced in Thomas Pynchon's V. (1963) and featured prominently in his novel The Crying of Lot 49 (1966). Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr (born May 8 1937 is an American writer based in New York City, noted for his dense and complex works of Fiction. V is the debut Novel of Thomas Pynchon, published in 1963. It describes the exploits of a discharged U The Crying of Lot 49 ( 1966) is a Novel by the Author Thomas Pynchon. Year 1966 ( MCMLXVI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. Described in the latter book as "a giant of the aerospace industry", Yoyodyne was founded by World War II veteran Clayton "Bloody" Chiclitz. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including The company has a large manufacturing plant in the fictional town of San Narciso, California. California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean.

It is generally assumed that the company is modeled primarily after the real-life Boeing, where Pynchon worked as a technical writer for a few years in the 1960s prior to publishing his first novel. The Boeing Company is a major Aerospace and defense corporation originally founded by William E The 1960s decade refers to the years from the beginning of 1960 to the end of 1969 The name is reminiscent of several real high-tech companies, including Teradyne, which was founded a few years before Pynchon wrote The Crying of Lot 49, and Rocketdyne, an aerospace company that manufactured, among other things, propulsion systems. Teradyne, a US company is a supplier of Automatic test equipment (ATE Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne is a United States company that designs and produces Rocket engines that use liquid propellants.

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Other uses

Yoyodyne in real life

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