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Marketing is everything in this classic novel from the 1950's. Although Pohl certainly did not invent the automatic pilot, he is one of the first to use a non-mechanical method to make it work.
Elmer A. Sperry built the first automatic pilot for aircraft using gyroscopes in 1910. Comment/Join this discussion (BACK ON!) ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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