Word: design
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Team Play. Britain's triumph in aircraft design was due to a combination of free-enterprising plane builders, Labor government financing and good planning. It did much to wipe out the government's flop with the Tudor planes which had cost British taxpayers an estimated $28 to $40 million. As far back as 1942, the government had put grizzled Baron Brabazon of Tara (who holds Britain's Pilot License No. 1) at the head of a committee which mapped out five basic postwar types to go after the world plane market. Last week prototypes...
Benjamin L. Moore, assistant director of the Computation Laboratory, and Way Doug Woo, assistant professor of Applied Mathematics, were directly in charge of its development, design, and construction. Mechanical design and construction of the internal high speed magnetic drum storage system, one of the major components of Mark III, was the work of Robert Wilkins, assisted by Dexter Smith...
...adder and multiplier were largely the work of Charles Coolidge. Marshall Kinkaid was mainly responsible for the over-all design of the sequencing circuits. The input and output circuits were constructed by Richard Hofheimer...
Charles Richards, who had previously worked on Mark II and will go to Dahigren with Mark III, also worked on design problems throughout the construction period...
Provost Buck announced that Professor George Daux of the Sorbonne in Paris will exchange teaching jobs with Professor Kenneth J. Conant of the Graduate School of Design...