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Charles Stark Draper, a Common card
Charles Stark "Doc" Draper was an American scientist and engineer, known as the "father of inertial navigation".
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 60
- DEF
- 38
- Power
- 98
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 12,000
Power 98 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
Charles Stark Draper quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Charles Stark Draper card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Beginning in the 1940s, Draper ______ inertial guidance systems for aircraft.
Answer
developed. Beginning in the 1940s, Draper developed inertial guidance systems for aircraft. From the Charles Stark Draper article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Laureano Gómez. Laureano Gómez 63 · Charles Stark Draper 60 · Aaron Ciechanover 57 · SN 2025pht 52 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He was the founder and director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Instrumentation Laboratory, which was later spun out of MIT to become the non-profit Charles Stark Draper Laboratory.
- Beginning in the 1940s, Draper developed inertial guidance systems for aircraft.
- In World War II, Draper invented the first lead-computing gunsights for aircraft, and later applying similar technology to missile guidance systems.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Charles Stark Draper article was read about 12,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 60 and blocks with 38: each hit it takes is cut by 15 %.
How to get Charles Stark Draper
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Charles Stark Draper (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
