Lt. JG Philip Dalton (1903-1941), USNR, inventor--aerial navigational computers & equipment, 31 January 2002.

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Lt. JG Philip Dalton (1903-1941), USNR, inventor--aerial navigational computers & equipment, 31 January 2002.

Biography of Lt. Dalton, including Foreword by author; Summary of accomplishments and life history; lists of Awards and Education, Aerial Navigational Devices with photographs and figures, with photocopied articles on same; summary of correspondence and excerpts; photocopies of family photographs and clippings.

57 pp.

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Smith, Philip M. (Philip Morgans)

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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 C...