Philip Dalton

Philip Dalton

Lt. Philip Dalton (1903 - 25 July 1941citeweb|url=http://www.newspaperarchive.com/LandingPage.aspx?type=glpnews&search=%22philip%20dalton%22%20%20%20pilot&
|title=The Charleston Gazette - Friday, July 25, 1941|accessdate=2007-07-27] ) was a United States Military Scientist. Dalton is best known for his invention of several slide-rule flight computers the most famous being the E-6B.citeweb|url=http://www.aerotraining.com/html_gif/dalton_computer.htm|title=Historical Trivia: The Dalton E-6B Flight Computer|accessdate=2007-07-27]

Invention

As a graduate of Cornell University and serving as a US Naval Reserve Pilot, Dalton took an interest in slide-rule flight computers. His first models were designed in the early 1930's but it was not until 1932 that the first revision of the E-6B, originally known as the "Dalton Dead Reckoning Computer", came into existence.

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