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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. The Charles Stark Draper Prize is a prominent prize in engineering devoted to the memory of Charles Stark Draper. Charles Stark Draper's Stark relatives were rather prominent in his Missouri birthplace and include his cousin Gov. Lloyd C. Stark. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Stark_Draper   (212 words)

Charles Stark Draper Prize - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The prize is named for Charles Stark Draper, the "father of inertial navigation", an MIT professor and founder of the Draper Laboratory. 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. 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)

Inventor of the Week 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. In his memory, the Draper Laboratory endowed the Charles Stark Draper Prize, an annual, international engineering award administered by the National Academy of Engineering. In 1978, MIT established the Charles Stark Draper Professorship of Aeronautics and Astronautics in Draper's honor. web.mit.edu /invent/iow/draper.html   (511 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. Without Hill, the transition of the former Instrumentation Laboratory, which had been renamed The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, from a member of the MIT family to a distant cousin status might not have occurred so smoothly and efficiently and possibly not at all. 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. www.nap.edu /nap-cgi/skimit.cgi?isbn=0309050375&chap=122-159   (1728 words)

Invent Now Hall of Fame Search Inventor Profile 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. 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. 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. www.invent.org /hall_of_fame/46.html   (189 words)

Draper Laboratory Copyright: The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. All Rights Reserved Draper Laboratory Employees Honored by AIAA New England Section Draper Employee Honored as 1 of 10 Women to Watch in New England www.draper.com   (65 words)

Today in Technology History - Oct 2 And the prestigious "Charles Stark Draper Prize" in his honor is awarded biennially to a deserving engineer. 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. Draper was born on October 2, 1901 in Windsor, Missouri. www.tecsoc.org /pubs/history/2001/oct2.htm   (301 words)

The 1998 Charles Stark Draper Prize 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. Charles "Doc" Draper was the father of modern inertial guidance systems used in aircraft, space vehicles, strategic missiles, and submarines. The Draper Laboratory is increasing the endowment to allow the prize to be presented annually. www4.nationalacademies.org /news.nsf/isbn/02251998?OpenDocument   (346 words)

Charles Stark Draper --  Encyclopædia Britannica byname Stark Draper American aeronautical engineer, educator, and science administrator. 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. www.britannica.com /eb/article-9031148?tocId=9031148&query=ruth   (733 words)

Draper Lab 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. Draper Lab is a private, nonprofit RandD lab, spun out of MIT& Instrumentation Lab in 1973 - amid protests from students about the school's deep involvement in military work. ludb.clui.org /ex/i/MA3136   (141 words)

Things Sink-Things Float-printable version Charles Stark Draper was an engineer and "father" of modern inertial guidance systems, used in commercial aircraft, space vehicles, strategic missiles, and submarines. It is presented by the National Academy of Engineering, with an endowment from the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. In 1998, Vladimir Haensel received the Charles Stark Draper Prize, a $450,000 award, for his work. www.discoverymuseum.net /tiop_a1.html   (387 words)

Draper, Charles Stark - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Draper, Charles Stark This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. He became head of the instrumentation laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1939. encyclopedia.farlex.com /Draper,+Charles+Stark   (112 words)

Charles Stark Draper 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. His team of students and technicians at MIT expanded to become the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, and in 1973 that lab became a separate, nonprofit research and development laboratory--The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. 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. www.jsc.draper.com /doc.html   (299 words)

release 1988 1201 Draper was Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientist who developed the first inertial guidance systems for aircraft, marine vessels and rockets. The Draper Award is one-time award initiated by the Paris-based foundation at its congress last October in Brighton, England. 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)

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. Draper continued as a student at MIT through 1938, receiving a bachelor's degree in..... 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. www.bookrags.com /biography-charles-stark-draper-woi   (247 words)

George Bush Presidential Library and Museum And of course it is an honor to salute the first two recipients of this, engineering's highest international award, the Charles Stark Draper Prize. 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)

Active Skim View of: Charles Stark Draper Currently skimming chapter: Charles Stark Draper, pages 57-62 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. 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)

1993 Recipient of the Charles Stark Draper Prize 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)

The 1999 Charles Stark Draper Prize 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. 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. 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)

Charles Stark Draper: The Man Who Set the World Straight - Elizabeth J. Sherman Last year the national Academy of Engineering presented its first Charles Stark Draper Award. Draper was a small bulldog of a man, and his flattened nose and burly shoulders bespoke his six years as a collegiate boxer. 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)

Small Times: News about MEMS, Nanotechnology and Microsystems 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. Employee turnover was on the rise at Draper, one of the nation's foremost military and space research labs of the Cold War era. www.smalltimes.com /document_display.cfm?document_id=4961   (1596 words)

2003's Top Engineering Honors Go to Inventors of GPS and Artificial Organs The Draper Prize was established in 1988 at the request of The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc., Cambridge, Mass., to honor the memory of "Doc" Draper, the "father of inertial navigation," and to increase public understanding of the contributions of engineering and technology. Ivan A. Getting and Bradford W. Parkinson will share the distinguished Charles Stark Draper Prize - a $500,000 annual award that honors engineers whose accomplishments have significantly impacted society - for their individual efforts toward the development of GPS. The Russ Prize was established in 1999 through a multimillion-dollar endowment to Ohio University from Fritz Russ, a 1942 engineering graduate, and his wife Dolores. www.eweek.org /2002/news/eweek/2003_draper_russ.shtml   (893 words)

Bell Labs: MacChesney Honored for Research in Fiber Optics 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 Draper Prize is named for Charles "Doc" Draper, the father of modern inertial guidance systems used in aircraft, space vehicles, strategic missiles, and submarines. The first Draper Prize was awarded in 1989 to Jack S. Kilby and Robert N. Noyce for their invention of the integrated circuit. www.bell-labs.com /news/1999/october/6/1.html   (754 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 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. 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. www.jobweb.com /employ/redirect.php?reference=logoclick&pageid=187&url=www.jobweb.com/employer/matrix/draper.htm   (558 words)

Charles Stark Draper Prize - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The prize is named for Charles Stark Draper, the "father of inertial navigation", an MIT professor and founder of the Draper Laboratory. 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. 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   (244 words)

Caspian Networks, Inc. - Virtual Pressroom The Charles Stark Draper Prize, endowed by the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. in Cambridge, Mass., was established in 1988 to increase public understanding of the contributions of engineers and how technology contributes to the welfare and freedom of humanity. San Jose, Calif. – Jan. 31, 2001 – Dr. Lawrence Roberts, founder, chairman and chief technology officer of Caspian Networks, Inc., is one of the recipients of this year's prestigious Charles Stark Draper Prize. "I'm honored to receive this year's Draper Prize," said Dr. Lawrence Roberts, chairman and chief technology officer of Caspian Networks. www.packet.cc /larry-news/CharlesStarkDraperPrize.htm   (776 words)

Stark Draper Open Source Rocketry Award This prize is dedicated to the memory of my grandmother's cousin, Charles Stark Draper. Candidates for the Stark Draper Open Source Rocketry Award may be relinquishing substantial rights to maintain intellectual property via trade secrets (and may be relinquishing foreign patent rights if they haven't filed by the date they publish on the web). I hereby, and until notice to the contrary, endow the Stark Draper Open Source Rocketry Award. www.outlander.com /draper.htm   (893 words)

Charles Stark Draper Draper developed a spinning gyroscope, stabilizing U.S. Navy antiaircraft gun-sights which led to an inertial guidance system for launching long-range missiles at supersonic jet targets. His Instrumentation Lab at MIT contributed to Project Apollo and men on the moon. www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0767124.html   (67 words)

Draper, Charles Stark (1901-1987) An Institute professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Draper developed the guidance systems used by aircraft, submarines, and guided missiles, that made the Apollo missions possible, and that help steer the Space Shuttle. www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/D/Draper_Charles.html   (125 words)

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