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	Charles Stark Draper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Charles Stark Draper (born October 2, 1901 - died July 25, 1987) is often referred to as "the father of inertial navigation." Born in Windsor, Missouri, he attended the University of Missouri in 1917, Stanford University, California in 1919, and MIT in 1922.
		Draper invented and developed the technology used in aircraft, space vehicles, and submarines which allows such vehicles to sense changes in direction by using gyroscopes and similar devices.
		The Charles Stark Draper Prize is a prominent prize in engineering devoted to the memory of Charles Stark Draper.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Stark_Draper (212 words)

	Inventor of the Week
		Draper became an assistant professor at MIT in 1935 in the department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
		Draper's focus was in applying gyroscopes, or devices that rotate in reaction to change in direction, to these types of systems by feeding information obtained by gyroscopes and accelerometers into computers, which would then calculate any deviation from an intended course or target and recommend corrective action.
		Draper's Lab at MIT was formed as a separate, nonprofit research and development laboratory - The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. in 1973, and since 1957, has developed guidance systems for the U.S. Navy.
	web.mit.edu /invent/iow/draper.html (511 words)

	Charles Stark Draper Prize - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Charles Stark Draper Prize is awarded by the National Academy of Engineering for the advancement of engineering and the education of the public about engineering.
		The prize is named for Charles Stark Draper, the "father of inertial navigation", an MIT professor and founder of the Draper Laboratory.
		1999: Charles K. Kao, Robert D. Maurer, and John B. MacChesney for the development of fiber optics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Stark_Draper_Prize (325 words)

	Charles Stark Draper Certificates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Charles Stark Draper was the leading figure behind the use of inertial navigation in aircraft, spacecraft, ballistic missiles, and submarines.
		Draper also developed inertial guidance systems utilized in the Polaris, Poseidon, Trident I and II submarine launched missiles, as well as the Atlas and Titan launch vehicles.
		Throughout his career, Draper was the recipient of numerous medals, awards, and distinctions, including the National Medal of Science and induction into the Inventor's Hall of Fame.
	www.nasm.si.edu /research/arch/findaids/draper/draper_sec_3.html (282 words)

	Today in Technology History - Oct 2
		Draper was born on October 2, 1901 in Windsor, Missouri.
		Draper then founded the Instrumentation Laboratory at M.I.T., where he did important work with gyroscopes, simple rotating devices that continue to spin in a single direction even if they are turned.
		And the prestigious "Charles Stark Draper Prize" in his honor is awarded biennially to a deserving engineer.
	www.tecsoc.org /pubs/history/2001/oct2.htm (301 words)

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		Aeronautical engineer and university professor Charles Stark Draper developed gyroscope systems that stabilized and balanced gunsights and bombsights, which were later expanded to an inertial guidance system for launching long-range missiles at supersonic jet targets.
		Draper subsequently developed the Spatial Inertial Reference Equipment (SPIRE) system for automatic aeronautical navigation-a system he later refined and miniaturized for use in the Polaris submarine missile system.
		Born in Windsor, Missouri, Charles Draper disliked specialization and so took several degrees from Stanford and a Doctor of Sciences in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1938.
	www.invent.org /hall_of_fame/46.html (189 words)

	The 1998 Charles Stark Draper Prize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Charles Stark Draper Prize, the engineering profession's highest honor, will be awarded annually by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) beginning in the year 2000.
		The Draper Laboratory is increasing the endowment to allow the prize to be presented annually.
		Charles "Doc" Draper was the father of modern inertial guidance systems used in aircraft, space vehicles, strategic missiles, and submarines.
	www4.nationalacademies.org /news.nsf/isbn/02251998?OpenDocument (346 words)

	Charles Stark Draper -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Draper's laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was a centre for the design of navigational and guidance systems for ships, airplanes, and missiles from World War II through the Cold War.
		The monologuist and monodramatist Ruth Draper was acclaimed throughout the United States and Europe for her delicate but vivid character sketches, which she performed on a bare stage with few props.
		John Stark was born on Aug. 28, 1728, in Londonderry, N.H. During the French and Indian War he served as an officer with Rogers' Rangers.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9031148?tocId=9031148&query=ruth (733 words)

	Active Skim View of: 6. Charles Stark Draper
		CHARLES STARK DRAPER October 2, 1901-July 25, 1987 BY ROBERT A DUFFY CHARLES STARK DRAPER, a complex genius of the twentieth century, was truly a modern version of the Renaissance man.
		Walter Wrigley, a student of Draper and with Draper's encouragement and help, wrote his doctoral dissertation in 1938 at MIT, ''On Vertical Indication From a Moving Base." The technology had evolved so that the servo loop closed around a gyro stabilized pendulum instrument of physical dimensions that could be electronically tuned to the required periodicity.
		The shared overhead of the institute roughly proportionally split costs between the academic departments representing a quarter of the institution's budget and the lion's share of the remainder represented by Al Hill's area of responsibility—losing the Instrumentation Lab as a revenue source was a significant trauma to the fiscal managers.
	www.nap.edu /nap-cgi/skimit.cgi?isbn=0309050375&chap=122-159 (1728 words)

	Bell Labs: MacChesney Honored for Research in Fiber Optics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Endowed by the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc., the Draper Prize recognizes outstanding engineering achievements that have contributed to the welfare and freedom of humanity.
		The first Draper Prize was awarded in 1989 to Jack S. Kilby and Robert N. Noyce for their invention of the integrated circuit.
		The Draper Prize is named for Charles "Doc" Draper, the father of modern inertial guidance systems used in aircraft, space vehicles, strategic missiles, and submarines.
	www.bell-labs.com /news/1999/october/6/1.html (754 words)

	Draper Lab (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Draper Lab is a private, nonprofit RandD lab, spun out of MIT's Instrumentation Lab in 1973 - amid protests from students about the school's deep involvement in military work.
		Charles Stark Draper was director of the Instrumentation Lab, and president of the Draper Lab for two years before retiring.
		Draper (who spent twelve years as a graduate student at MIT), and his students developed gyroscopic inertial navigation technologies after the war, which revolutionized aeronautics and made nuclear missiles possible.
	ludb.clui.org /ex/i/MA3136 (141 words)

	Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.
		Founded in 1930 by Dr. Charles Stark Draper, the Laboratory's mission is to serve the interests of the nation in applied research, engineering development, technology transfer and advanced technical education.
		Draper's technologies are focused on future strategic systems concepts and technologies, precision targeting and weapons systems, autonomous systems, information systems, distributed sensors and networks, biomedical engineering and chemical/biological defense.
		Draper's commitment to advanced technical education is manifested in its recruitment of graduate and undergraduate students to work on real-world problems while fulfilling part of their academic requirements at affiliated institutions.
	www.jobweb.com /employ/redirect.php?reference=logoclick&pageid=187&url=www.jobweb.com/employer/matrix/draper.htm (558 words)

	Draper Laboratory
		Draper's Community Involvement Report 2001 - 2005 pdf - 296KB
		Draper Employee Honored as 1 of 10 Women to Watch in New England
		Draper Laboratory Employees Honored by AIAA New England Section
	www.draper.com (65 words)

	The 1999 Charles Stark Draper Prize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		WASHINGTON -- The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced that three engineers -- Charles K. Kao, Robert D. Maurer, and John B. MacChesney -- are the recipients of the 1999 Charles Stark Draper Prize for their work in developing fiber optic technology, a watershed event in the global telecommunications and information technology revolution.
		The Charles Stark Draper Prize, endowed by Draper Laboratory, Cambridge, Mass., was established in 1988 to recognize individuals whose outstanding engineering achievements have contributed to the well-being and freedom of humanity.
		Draper Laboratory serves the nation as an independent, nonprofit laboratory engaged in applied research, engineering development, education, and technology transfer.
	www4.nationalacademies.org /news.nsf/isbn/10061999?OpenDocument (988 words)

	Small Times: News about MEMS, Nanotechnology and Microsystems
		Employee turnover was on the rise at Draper, one of the nation's foremost military and space research labs of the Cold War era.
		Draper is best known for developing advanced guidance systems, the pivotal technology both for the submarine-based nuclear missiles that deterred the Soviets and for the Apollo 11 spacecraft that put the first man on the moon.
		Draper's challenges mirror those at many aerospace and defense research labs and companies whose core technologies revolutionized their fields in the decades after World War II, but since have matured and lost some of their luster.
	www.smalltimes.com /document_display.cfm?document_id=4961 (1596 words)

	Charles Stark Draper Prize
		It is a goal of the National Academy of Engineering to honor those who have contributed to the advancement of engineering and to improve public understanding of the importance of engineering and technology.
		Recognized as one of the world's preeminent awards for engineering achievement, the Charles Stark Draper Prize honors an engineer whose accomplishment has significantly impacted society by improving the quality of life, providing the ability to live freely and comfortably, and/or permitting the access to information.
		The Draper Prize is awarded annually, the recipient receives a $500,000 cash award, and the prize recognizes achievements in all engineering disciplines.
	www.nae.edu /nae/awardscom.nsf/weblinks/NAEW-4NHML8?OpenDocument (137 words)

	Charles Stark Draper: The Man Who Set the World Straight - Elizabeth J. Sherman
		Draper was a small bulldog of a man, and his flattened nose and burly shoulders bespoke his six years as a collegiate boxer.
		Carefully preserving the rule that no one in his lab stopped work before five, Draper would ignore the line of watches up his arm (which gave the correct time from Moscow to Muncie) and push a button beneath his desk.
		Draper insisted that his engineers get to know the whole of a project before dealing with the parts.
	www.worldandi.com /specialreport/1990/october/Sa18347.htm (314 words)

	George Bush Presidential Library and Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		These efforts, both private and public, will sustain the computer revolution, for they rely on the qualities of American drive and determination, qualities that will contribute, as your Academy says, ``to the advancement of engineering and the well-being of all humanity'' and that are central to the man for whom this evening's prize is named.
		Charles Draper was, first, an idealist pushing back the boundaries of mankind's technological future, and yet at the same time a practical man. I'm reminded of a writer who was asked what he would take if his home were on fire and he could remove only one thing.
		He said: ``Only men who are free create the inventions and intellectual works which make life worthwhile.'' Working in freedom, Charles Draper well used that freedom: used it to create and to inspire, to make history move his way.
	bushlibrary.tamu.edu /research/papers/1990/90022005.html (1409 words)

	Charles Stark Draper Biography / Biography of Charles Stark Draper History of Invention Biography
		Charles Stark Draper is best known for his work on gyroscopic instruments and other navigation systems for sea, air, and space craft.
		After his graduation from Stanford with a bachelor's degree in psychology, Draper made a decision that changed the course of his life: he agreed to drive to Boston with a friend who planned to enroll at Harvard.
		Draper continued as a student at MIT through 1938, receiving a bachelor's degree in.....
	www.bookrags.com /biography-charles-stark-draper-woi (247 words)

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		Draper really pursued three major thrusts in his life's work: measurement of physical processes, primarily the instrumentation of dynamic geometry; the systems engineering of those processes in the larger context of new concepts; and, finally, the education of the engineering profession.
		Thus, the challenge for the Instrumentation Laboratory was not to prove a concept or even a technology but rather to adapt the system to the extraordinary distances and the demanding reliability requirements of the manned moon mission.
		In actuality the version of Draper's system implemented by Dave Hoag and his team used both a star tracker and accepted radio position and velocity updates from NASA's long base-line earth-based tracking stations- a sort of belt-and-suspenders solution that worked.
	www.nap.edu /nap-cgi/skimit.cgi?isbn=0309043492&chap=57-62 (329 words)

	release 1988 1201 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Draper Award is one-time award initiated by the Paris-based foundation at its congress last October in Brighton, England.
		Draper was Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientist who developed the first inertial guidance systems for aircraft, marine vessels and rockets.
		His laboratory at MIT was separated from the university in 1973 and became private institution for government research.
	www.jpl.nasa.gov /releases/80s/release_1988_1201.html (338 words)

	Things Sink-Things Float-printable version (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In 1998, Vladimir Haensel received the Charles Stark Draper Prize, a $450,000 award, for his work.
		It is presented by the National Academy of Engineering, with an endowment from the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory.
		Charles Stark Draper was an engineer and "father" of modern inertial guidance systems, used in commercial aircraft, space vehicles, strategic missiles, and submarines.
	www.discoverymuseum.net /tiop_a1.html (387 words)

	Charles Stark Draper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The "father of inertial navigation," Charles Stark Draper evolved the theory, invented and developed the technology, and let the effort that brought inertial navigation, which allows vehicles to sense changes in direction by linking gyroscopes and accelerometers along three axes, to operational use in aircraft, space vehicles, and submarines.
		A pioneer among aircraft engineers, Draper's monumental efforts on the Apollo program and on the guidance systems for strategic missiles bear witness to his genius.
		Born Windsor, Missouri, on October 2, 1901, "Doc" Draper began his college work in arts and sciences at the University of Missouri in 1917.
	www.jsc.draper.com /doc.html (299 words)

	Engology.com, Engineer Charles Kao, Professor, Engineer Inventor, Father of Fiber Optics, Patents, Professional ...
		Charles Kao (Chinese University of Hong Kong) is recognized internationally as the "Father of Fiber Optic Communications" and was the Vice Chancellor (President) of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
		The Engineers Charles K. Kao was born in 1933 in Shanghai, China.
		Charles Kao is credited for first publicly proposing the possibility of practical telecommunications using fibers.
	www.engology.com /eng5kao.htm (1295 words)

	1993 Recipient of the Charles Stark Draper Prize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Backus was named the recipient of the 1993 Charles Stark Draper Prize for his development of FORTRAN--FORmula TRANslation--the first general-purpose, high-level computer programming language.
		The $375,000 Draper Prize was established by the NAE in 1988 to recognize individuals whose outstanding engineering achievements have contributed to the well-being and freedom of all humanity.
		The biennial Draper Prize honors particularly those rare individuals who were able to take an idea, develop it, and put it into practice.
	www.engineergirl.org /NAE/awardscom.nsf/weblinks/NAEW-4NHM9U (572 words)

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