Draper, C. S. (Charles Stark)

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Dates:
Birth 1901-10-02
Death 1987-07-25

Biographical notes:

Engineer, inventor, and educator. Born 1901; died 1987.

From the description of C.S. Draper papers, 1773-1978 (bulk 1939-1973). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70982304

Charles Stark Draper (1901-1987). BA, psychology, Stanford University (1922); BS, chemical engineering, ScD, physics (1938), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Instrumentation Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1939-1969).

From the description of Charles Stark Draper certificates, 1941-1978. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 154305911

Aeronautical engineer.

From the description of Reminiscences of Charles Stark Draper : oral history, 1983. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 298686761

Biographical Note

1901, Oct. 2 Born, Windsor, Mo. 1917 1919 Attended University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo. 1922 B.S., psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif. 1926 B.S., electrochemical engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. 1926 circa 1941 Officer, United States Army Air Corp Reserve 1928 M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. 1935 1938 Assistant professor, aeronautical engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. 1938 D.Sc., physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. Married Ivy Willard 1939 Appointed professor, aeronautical engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. 1939 1969 Director, Instrumentation Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge Mass. 1940 1945 Developed Mark 14 and Mark 15 naval gun sights and related antiaircraft fire control systems 1945 Awarded Sylvanus Albert Reed and Naval Ordnance Development awards 1946 Awarded Medal of Merit by Harry S. Truman 1947 1951 Developed A-1 gun sight and other aids to jet aircraft gunnery 1951 Appointed chairman, Department of Aeronautical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. 1953 First practical demonstration of inertial navigation, B-29 flight, Bedford, Mass., to Los Angeles, Calif. 1959 1966 Chairman, Department of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. 1961 One of American scientists declared "Men of the Year" by Time Instrumentation Laboratory awarded contract by National Aeronautics and Space Administration to design guidance system for Apollo spacecraft 1964 Awarded National Medal of Science by Lyndon B. Johnson 1973 Instrumentation Laboratory divested from Massachusetts Institute of Technology to become Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Cambridge, Mass. 1987, July 25 Died, Cambridge, Mass.

From the guide to the C. S. Draper Papers, 1773-1978, (bulk 1939-1973), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)

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Subjects:

  • Aeronautical engineers
  • Aeronautical instruments
  • Aeronautics
  • Aircraft industry
  • Airplanes
  • Automatic pilot (Airplanes)
  • Commission merchants
  • Commission merchants
  • Dance
  • Engineering
  • Genealogy
  • Gyroscopic instruments
  • Inertial navigation systems
  • Instrument flying
  • Instrument industry

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  • Educators
  • Engineers
  • Inventors

Places:

  • Missouri (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • Missouri (as recorded)

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