George Risk

(1912-1989) lived in Omaha, Columbus, and Kimball. Electronics manufacturing executive, inventor, held almost 20 patents in electronics, ranging from antennas to resistors to switches; founded three companies in 1938, 1951, and 1968, the latter George Risk Industries, which designs, manufactures, and sells computer keyboards and keypads, push-button switches, control boards, and security burglar alarm, products used worldwide in military, aerospace, industrial, and medical fields, and assisted in the 1983 MGM movie "War Games"; was chairman in 1950s of an association that cooperated with Federal Civil Defense to conduct tests on the effects of nuclear detonations on communications equipment and electronic apparatus. Consult Sunday/Omaha/World Herald Magazine, April 21, 1946, p. C-3 and Sunday World Herald, April 2, 1961, p. B-8 and Scottsbluff Star-Herald, October 21, 1979, p. 6 and Hastings Tribune, August 5, 1983, p. 11 and New York Times obituary, October 20, 1989, p. B-4.

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