04908cpcaa2200805 i 4500 mm 82021360 DLC 20260227111713.0 cr ||||||||||| 820618|||||||||||| eng mm 82021360 DLC DLC DLC eng dacs S lcmd Draper, C. S. (Charles Stark) C.S. Draper papers, 1773-1978 (bulk 1939-1973). 16,800 items. 48 containers plus 1 oversize. 19.2 linear feet. Arranged in 5 series. Series 1: Family and Personal Papers, circa 1773-1974; Series 2: Professional File, 1925-1974; Series 3: Speeches and Writings, 1933-1978; Series 4: Miscellany, 1917-1974; and Series 5: Oversize, 1939. Open to research. Correspondence, speeches, writings, and consultant and organizational files documenting Draper's career as a professor of aeronautical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and technical consultant to the Curtiss-Wright Corporation and other airplane manufacturers and to the Sperry Gyroscope Company, inc., American Waltham Watch Company, and other instrumentmakers. Subjects include aircraft navigation, blind flying, and aeronautical instruments, especially gyroscopic inertial guidance, the basis for "automatic pilot" navigational systems. Correspondents include Holt Ashley, Sir Leon Bagrit, Raymond L. Bisplinghoff, Benjamin P. Blasingame, Secor D. Browne, Richard H. Frazier, I.J. Galantin, Howard Wesley Johnson, J. Francis Reintjes, Robert C. Seamans, Jr., and Martin Summerfield. Papers of Draper's mother, Martha Washington Stark Draper, a founder of the Missouri chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, relate chiefly to the history and genealogy of the Draper and Stark families and to Missouri state and local history. Includes a commonplace book and ledger (circa 1773) kept by father and son commission merchants John Francis Lucas Jacoby and Ralph Jacoby. Correspondents include Thomas Benson Whitledge and C.S. Draper's brother, Ralph Clayton Draper. Audio recordings transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division. Engineer, inventor, and educator. Born 1901; died 1987. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013025 Ashley, Holt Correspondence. Bagrit, Leon, Sir Correspondence. Bisplinghoff, Raymond L. Correspondence. Blasingame, Benjamin P. (Benjamin Paul) Correspondence. Browne, Secor D. (Secor Delahay), 1916-1986 Correspondence. Draper, Ralph Clayton Correspondence. Frazier, Richard H. (Richard Henry), 1900- Correspondence. Galantin, I. J., 1910- Correspondence. Johnson, Howard Wesley, 1922-2009 Correspondence. Reintjes, J. Francis Correspondence. Seamans, Robert C. Correspondence. Summerfield, Martin Correspondence. Whitledge, Thomas Benson, 1810-1844. Draper family. Stark family. American Waltham Watch Company. Curtiss-Wright Corporation. Daughters of the American Revolution. Missouri Society. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Faculty. Sperry Gyroscope Company, inc. Aeronautical instruments. Aeronautics. Aircraft industry. Airplanes Piloting. Automatic pilot (Airplanes) Commission merchants United States. Engineering. Genealogy. Gyroscopic instruments. Instrument flying. Instrument industry. Missouri History. Missouri History, Local. Educators. itoamc Engineers. itoamc Inventors. itoamc Draper, Martha Washington Stark. Martha Washington Stark Draper papers. Jacoby, John Francis Lucas. John Francis Lucas Jacoby and Ralph Jacoby commonplace book and ledger. circa 1773. Jacoby, Ralph, 1768-1822. John Francis Lucas Jacoby and Ralph Jacoby commonplace book and ledger. circa 1773. Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013025 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013025.3 43515 43515