Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 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. |