Smith, Philip M. (Philip Morgans)

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Dates:

Birth 1941

Biographical notes:

Physicist and Navy pilot; best known as inventor of the Dalton Dead Reckoning Computer Type E-6B, as well as other flight navigational aids. Killed on a training flight in 1941.

From the description of Lt. JG Philip Dalton (1903-1941), USNR, inventor--aerial navigational computers & equipment, 31 January 2002. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83226833

Philip Dalton graduated from Cornell University in 1924. His parents, William Dalton and Ida May Hill were members of the Cornell Class of 1890. He was commissioned as a 2nd lieutenant in the U.S. Field Artillery, 1924; received a M.S. from Princeton in 1925; and was commissioned as a naval aviator in 1931. He was killed in a training flight in 1941. During the 1930s he designed and patented aerial navigational equipment including the Dalton Dead Reckoning Computer E6-B.

From the description of Ensign Philip Dalton, USNR: inventor - aerial navigational computers & equipment, 2002. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64093461