Daedalus Research Evaluation and Development Corporation

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The Deadalus Research Evaluation and Development Corporation (DREADCO) is a fictional company dedicated to research and development, especially of the far-fetched inventions of the equally fictional inventor Daedalus. The company was frequently featured in the Daedalus column, originally a feature of the New Scientist weekly, but now in Nature.

DREADCO and Daedalus were the creation of chemist David Jones. DREADCO was a suggestion of physicist Edward Wheeler; Jones started mentioning the company in his column in the 1980s, whenever the inventions of Daedalus needed unspecified complex developments or involved fabrication on an industrial scale. Daedalus was generally assumed to be a founder and director of the company.

[edit] See also

• Acme Corporation - a similar fictional corporation which supplies impossible or unlikely artifacts of Looney Tunes cartoons.