THE BIRTH OF NUMERICAL CONTROL NC

In the late 1940s, J. D. Parsons of Traverse City, MI obtained a contract with the U.S. Air Force to conduct a feasibility study of a pulsed 

In March 1951, it was decided that a simple name was needed for the concept of digital control of machine tools, and a contest to obtain a name was conducted in the Servomechanisms Laboratory. McDonough was the winner with Numerical Control (NC). 

In the summer of 1950, a professor from the Mechanical Engineering Department, with two members of MIT s Industrial Liaison Office, visited several aircraft companies in California to obtain drawings of t3 ical parts the companies would like to see produced by the new system. 

At this time, the Air Force decided it was time to introduce the public to numerical control. This was done in three one-day sessions, which included lectures and demonstrations as follows  

1952 for aircraft companies and those producing parts 

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