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John T. Parsons Papers

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Identifier: Ms-1987-016
Scope and Content Manufacturer; inventor; father of numerical control, or the application of computer technology to manufacturing processes. Produced bombs and land mines for U.S. government during World War II. Conceived a machine tool for automatically producing aircraft structural shapes from punch card/tape input (1946); executed contract to produce the world's first numerical control milling machine (1949) and monitored design and completion of the machine (1950-52). Originated aircraft operation that...
Dates: c.1935-1987