Industry honors the inventor of NC.(numerical control; John T. Parsons)

Modern Machine Shop | December 1, 1998| | Copyright

In the beginning there was no NC, nor were there any computers. The beginning referred to here is manufacturing prior to 1945 when machine tools were all manually controlled. Between 1945 and 1958 two major events occurred that are credited with starting a second industrial revolution. The first event was the creation of a practical digital electronic computer in 1945 called ENIAC (Electrical Numerical Integrator And Calculator). The second was John T. Parsons' invention of numerical control. On Sept. 10, 1998, a dinner was held in Chicago honoring John Parsons for his ...

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