Carl Lucas Norden (April 23, 1880 – June 14, 1965), born Carel Lucas van Norden, was a Dutch-American engineer who invented the Norden bombsight.

Norden was a quiet and unassuming man who was proud that the bombsight could be used for strategically striking military targets while minimizing collateral damage to surrounding civilian populations and structures such as churches, schools, and homes.

The Norden sight was designed by Carl Norden, a Dutch engineer educated in Switzerland who immigrated to the U.S. in 1904. In 1911, Norden joined Sperry Gyroscope to work on ship gyrostabilizers, [3] [b] and then moved to work directly for the U.S. Navy as a consultant.

Carl Lukas Norden was a Dutch mechanical engineer and inventor. His bombsight was one of the most closely guarded military secrets of World War II. Carl Lukas Norden was born on April 23, 1880 in Semarang, Java, Indonesia. He was the son of Edward Norden, a prosperous merchant, and Cornelia Gersen.

2019年4月27日 · The US Navy’s prayers were answered when a group of engineers, led by Carl Norden, developed a bombsight he once claimed “could put a bomb in a pickle barrel from 20,000 feet.” The US Army Air Corps (USAAC) followed the Navy’s lead, and the two services combined funds to develop and produce the Norden bombsight.

2017年3月9日 · In 1921 the Navy’s Bureau of Ordnance assigned Carl L. Norden, a consulting engineer, to study the problems surrounding precision bombing. Two years later he began collaborating with another engineer, Theodore H. Barth, on an improved sight, in cooperation with Captain Frederick I. Entwistle, assistant research chief at the Bureau of Ordnance.

The U.S. Navy’s Bureau of Ordnance (BuOrd) decided to develop such a precision bombsight, and in 1920 contracted with Carl L. Norden, a Dutch citizen and recent immigrant with a reputation as a clever designer of gyroscopically stabilized systems. Norden finished his masterpiece in …

In January 1920, BuOrd contracted with Carl L. Norden to improve the Navy Mark III bombsight, a modified Wimperis device. Norden, born in Semarang, Java, to Dutch parents, studied mechanical...