TY  - GEN
AU  - Draper,C.S.
AU  - Draper,Martha Washington Stark
AU  - Jacoby,John Francis Lucas
AU  - Jacoby,Ralph
TI  - C.S. Draper papers,
KW  - Ashley, Holt
KW  - Bagrit, Leon,
KW  - Bisplinghoff, Raymond L.
KW  - Blasingame, Benjamin P.
KW  - Browne, Secor D.
KW  - Draper, Ralph Clayton
KW  - Frazier, Richard H.
KW  - Galantin, I. J.,
KW  - Johnson, Howard Wesley,
KW  - Reintjes, J. Francis
KW  - Seamans, Robert C.
KW  - Summerfield, Martin
KW  - Whitledge, Thomas Benson,
KW  - Draper family.
KW  - Stark family.
KW  - American Waltham Watch Company
KW  - Curtiss-Wright Corporation
KW  - Daughters of the American Revolution
KW  - Missouri Society
KW  - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
KW  - Faculty
KW  - Sperry Gyroscope Company, inc
KW  - Aeronautical instruments
KW  - Aeronautics
KW  - Aircraft industry
KW  - Airplanes
KW  - Piloting
KW  - Automatic pilot (Airplanes)
KW  - Commission merchants
KW  - United States
KW  - Engineering
KW  - Genealogy
KW  - Gyroscopic instruments
KW  - Instrument flying
KW  - Instrument industry
KW  - Missouri
KW  - History
KW  - History, Local
KW  - Educators
KW  - itoamc
KW  - Engineers
KW  - Inventors
N1  - Open to research
N2  - 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
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013025
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013025.3
ER  -