It was here that Aperture began flexing their scientific prowess. One such development was a dietetic pudding substitute comprised of non-toxic fiberglass insulation, otherwise known as repulsion gel. The first of multiple underground facilities were built around this time, one of which was dubbed Test Shaft 09. Behind the scenes Aperture was dabbling in more than just shower curtains in the depths of the earth. The salt mine upon which the Aperture headquarters was constructed extended some four kilometers into the ground at the time when Johnson acquired it. The government contract provided Aperture with enough capital to support numerous ventures outside of shower curtain research and development. After a decade of operating as a private company, Johnson takes Aperture Science Innovators public in 1953. The Eisenhower Administration took notice of the innovative company and contracted with them to produce shower curtains for all branches of the US Military, with the exception of the Navy. Within two years time the company placed #2 on the list of Top 100 Applied Science Companies by the Mechanical Engineering World Journal. The enigmatic Johnson applied his scientific principles to shower curtain production with great success. In 1947 the company renamed itself Aperture Science Innovators and were awarded the Best New Science Company Award that same year. The next year Cave Johnson purchased a salt mine in the Michigan Upper Peninsula to be the headquarters for Aperture Fixtures. Johnson’s innovations in shower curtain technology propelled the young startup into financial security seemingly overnight. In 1943 a tenacious entrepreneur by the name of Cave Johnson started a small business called Aperture Fixtures, which developed shower curtains. Before delving into that, an examination of Aperture’s history is in order. Exploring the abandoned Aperture labs was an urbex adventure unlike any other.
To maintain intellectual superiority during the Cold War the US government contracted with many private science companies to make wild dreams a reality. It was companies that dared to dream big, like Aperture Science, that brought those scientific innovations into American lives. The Soviet launch of Sputnik sparked a race to send man to the moon. Driven by necessity scientists unleashed the raw power of the atom.
Post World War II era America experienced a golden age in science.
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