John T. Parsons

Background

An American manufacturing engineer who worked on helicopter rotor blades.

Contribution

Conceived using punched-card/coordinate data to drive machine-tool motion, launching numerical control; the working system was developed with the MIT Servomechanisms Laboratory (early 1950s).

Associated inventions

• Numerical Control & CNC

Associated organizations

• MIT Servomechanisms Laboratory

Sources & further reading

Each citation names the publisher and the exact reference title.

• MIT — history of numerical control & the Servomechanisms LaboratoryMassachusetts Institute of Technology · University
• Engineering and Technology History Wiki (ETHW)IEEE / United Engineering Foundation · Professional body

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