Charles Stark Draper
Engineer, Inventor
1901 – 1987
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Who was Charles Stark Draper?
Charles Stark "Doc" Draper was an American scientist and engineer, known as the "father of inertial navigation". He was the founder and director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Instrumentation Laboratory, later renamed the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, which made the Apollo moon landings possible through the Apollo Guidance Computer it designed for NASA.
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- Born
- Oct 2, 1901
Windsor - Also known as
- father of inertial navigation
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Doctor of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Physics
(1928 - 1938) - Master of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Physics
(1926 - 1928) - Stanford University
(1919 - ) - University of Missouri–Columbia
- Bachelor of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Electrochemical Engineering
(1922 - 1926)
- Doctor of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Employment
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Lived in
- United States of America
- Died
- Jul 25, 1987
Cambridge
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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