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Mountain View

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Mountain View, city, Santa Clara county, California, U.S. It lies on the southwest shore of San Francisco Bay. Settled in 1852 as a stagecoach station, it became a shipping point for fruit and grain and a centre of religious book publishing in the early 1900s. From 1929 to 1994 Mountain View was the home of Moffett Field Naval Air Station. In 1940 the Ames Laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (now the NASA...

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