Blasingame, Benjamin P. (Benjamin Paul)

found: OCLC, Oct. 29, 2003(hdg.: Blasingame, Benjamin P.; Blasingame, Benjamin Paul; usage: Benjamin P. Blasingame)

found: Library of Congress Manuscript Division for the C.S. Draper papers, 1773-1978(Benjamin P. Blasingame; born in State College, Centre County, Pa., on 1 August 1919; called to active duty in the U.S. Air Force in early 1941; graduate studies in 1947 at Charles Stark Draper's Instrumentation Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received his Doctor of Science degree in 1950; in the 1950s worked in the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) program advocating inertial guidance systems; resigned his commission in 1959 and became director of engineering, later manager, at AC Spark Plug, the Electronics Division (Delco) of General Motors Corporation in Milwaukee, Wis.; retired from Delco in 1979; continued to serve on National Research Council committees and panels that advised NASA on its role in development of rotorcraft technology)