Charles Stark Draper

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According to Wikipedia, 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 landingss possible through the Apollo Guidance Computer it designed for NASA.

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Charles Stark Draper's Published Works

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Principles of optimalizing control systems and an application to the internal combusion engine (1951) (147)
Pressure Waves Accompanying Detonation in the Internal Combustion Engine (1938) (143)
The physical effects of detonation in a closed cylindrical chamber (1933) (57)
Origins of inertial navigation (1981) (34)
SPACE NAVIGATION GUIDANCE AND CONTROL (1965) (23)
Control, navigation, and guidance (1981) (13)
GUIDANCE IS FOREVER (1971) (13)
A New High-Performance Engine Indicator of the Strain-Gage Type (1949) (10)
A CASE STUDY OF STRATEGIC PRODUCT DESIGN (1995) (9)
Electro-mechanical Design in Europe: University Research and Industrial Practice (1995) (8)
NASA Contractor Report 189607 r MOVING FORMAL METHODS INTO PRACTICE : VERIFYING THE FTPP SCOREBOARD : PHASE 1 RESULTS (1992) (7)
Technology, Engineering, Science and Modern Education (1969) (5)
Acoustical Analysis of the Pressure Waves Accompanying Detonation in the Internal‐Combustion Engine (1939) (5)
The M.I.T.-Sperry Apparatus for Measuring Vibration (1937) (5)
Measurement of Aircraft Vibration During Flight (1936) (4)
Development for Reliability (1962) (4)
An engineering approach to gyroscopic instruments (1960) (4)
Mechanization of Inertial Guidance Systems (1963) (3)
Dynamic Errors of the Rate-of-Climb Meter (1938) (3)
A New Instrument Devised for the Study of Combustion (1934) (3)
ACTA prepares for the future (1974) (2)
The evolution of aerospace guidance technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1935 - 1951: A memoir (1977) (2)
Self-contained guidance systems (1958) (2)
Design Factors Controlling the Dynamic Performance of Instruments (1940) (2)
Northerly Turning Error of the Magnetic Compass for Aircraft (1938) (2)
Poles and zeros: Science, technology, and system developments (1965) (2)
Vibration Measurement in Flight (1937) (2)
Space-flight guidance (1958) (1)
The Application of an Electromagnetic Indicator to Internal Combustion Engine Problems (1940) (1)
A Fast and Economical Type of Photographic Oscillograph (1933) (1)
DEVELOPMENT CRITERIA FOR SPACE NAVIGATION GYROSCOPES (1961) (1)
Development of detonation detector suitable for use in flight (1944) (1)
PRINCIPLES OF INERTIAL GUIDANCE (1959) (1)
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS TO SESSION III (1972) (1)
Power Supplies for Suction-Driven Gyroscopic Aircraft Instruments (1934) (1)
Mathematical Approximations for the Technology of Navigation, Control and Guidance of Space Vehicles (1970) (1)
The meteorological airplane ascents of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Part I. On the technique of meteorological airplane ascents. Part II. Aircraft instruments in meteorological flying (1934) (1)
Systems Engineering and Modern Technology. (1970) (0)
G89-015 Efficacy of the Gibbs-Appell Method for Generating Equations of Motion for Complex Systems. Edward A. (1990) (0)
INTERDEPENDENCE OF CIVILIAN AND MILITARY SCIENCE (1965) (0)
The physical processes accompanying detonation in the internal combustion engine (1938) (0)
International academy of astronautics report for the year 1974–1975 (1975) (0)
Dynamic support of instrument components by viscous fluids (1960) (0)
The role of informetics in modern flight systems. (1966) (0)
A Session on Aircraft Demands of the Future: Aircraft of the Future and Ports for Modern Flight Vehicles (Jet Age Conference 1957) (1959) (0)
An Instrument for Measuring Low Frequency Accelerations in Flight (1940) (0)
Methods for describing the situations of instrument engineering (1952) (0)
International academy of astronautics report of the president for the year 1977–1978 (1979) (0)
International Academy of Astronautics report of the President for the year 1978–1979 (1980) (0)
Guidance - Basic principles (1965) (0)
HIGH-ACCURACY MECHANICAL INTEGRATION BY SHEAR IN VISCOUS LIQUIDS. (1959) (0)
Acta adapts for the future (1980) (0)
A Signal Transmission Technique for Stability Analysis of Multivariable Non-linear Control Systems (0)
Applications of the instrument engineering methods (1955) (0)
The New Instrument Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1936) (0)
The production of fluorite crystals in the electric furnace (0)
The sonic altimeter for aircraft (1937) (0)
Dramatic Reductions in Lead Time at Volvo Based on Restructuring the Design Process and Introducing Computers by Daniel E. Whitney, currently serving as a Liaison Scientist for Manufacturing at the Office (1995) (0)
International academy of astronautics report for the year 1975–1976 (1976) (0)
Annual chronology of international astronautical events 1974 sponsored by the international academy of astronautics (1977) (0)
Fifty Years of Flight Technology (1978) (0)
A method for detecting detonation waves in the internal combustion engine (0)
The role of informetics in modern flight systems - 29th Wright brothers lecture (1966) (0)
Flight Control (1955) (0)
TRAFFIC CONTROL * (1968) (0)
Creativity, education, and space exploration (1966) (0)

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