His father, a prosperous hotel owner, had no objection and sent him to Harvard, where he got a science degree, and then to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a course in aeronautical engineering.

ECONOMIST: Arthur Raymond

Eric Fenton , an associate professor of aeronautical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, developed a system that allows planes to fly by following typed directions similar to the verbal commands a flight controller might give.

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