Philip Bowditch, engineer, designed systems used in landings on the moon

From: The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA | Date: August 14, 2007 | Copyright information

SCARBOROUGH, Maine - Philip Nairne Bowditch, 86, of Scarborough, formerly of Cohasset, a retired engineer who designed systems used in the landings on the moon, died Aug. 1.

Mr. Bowditch began his career as a junior engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Instrumentation Laboratory in Cambridge, shortly after graduation from MIT and completed his working career as creator and head of the scientific and engineering department at Draper Laboratory, formerly the MIT Instrume...

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