Smith, Philip M. (Philip Morgans)
Variant namesPhysicist 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
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| creatorOf | University of Guelph. Dept. of Economics. Wage changes: the frequency of wage settlements, the variability of contract length, and "Locked-In" wage adjustment. | University of Guelph. McLaughlin Library | |
| creatorOf | Smith, Philip M. Lt. JG Philip Dalton (1903-1941), USNR, inventor--aerial navigational computers & equipment, 31 January 2002. | American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library | |
| creatorOf | Smith, Philip M. Ensign Philip Dalton, USNR: inventor - aerial navigational computers & equipment, 2002. | Cornell University Library | |
| referencedIn | Malina, Judith, 1926-. Judith Malina diaries, 1947-1959. | New York Public Library System, NYPL | |
| creatorOf | Smith, Philip M. Philip Smith compilation of Waterman family pension records, ca. 1946. | Connecticut Historical Society | |
| creatorOf | OAC Review Index (University of Guelph). Macdonald Alumnae, OAC Review, v.49, no.4, Jan. 1937, p. 264, 266. | University of Guelph. McLaughlin Library |
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| associatedWith | Cornell University. Class of 1924. | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | Malina, Judith, 1926- | person |
| associatedWith | OAC Review Index (University of Guelph) | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | University of Guelph. Dept. of Economics. | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | Waterman family. | family |
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| Aeronautics |
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| Navigation (Aeronautics) |
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Birth 1941
