Draper, C. S. (Charles Stark) creator mixed material monographic eng 16,800 48 1 19.2 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. Open to research. 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 Sir Bagrit, Leon 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 Engineers Inventors Draper, Martha Washington Stark. Jacoby, John Francis Lucas. Jacoby, Ralph, 1768-1822 mm 82021360 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms013025 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms013025.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013025 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013025.3 Open to research. DLC 820618 20260227111713.0 mm 82021360 eng