JPL: Founded/funded by the Guggenheims.
Manhattan Project: Um, ok. War. Govt function. No argument. But don't forget the Brits.
Apollo/NASA: P&W Rocketdyne, Boeing, etc.
AMC Pacer: Well, we don't really want to revisit your high school misadventures here in this forum. No doubt you and your fellow geeks, all jacked up on rainbow sherbet cups from the Wallingford Thriftway one night, actually contemplated driving backward through the KFC drive up window. Until you finally came to your senses...