!!!Boykow, Johann Maria

b. St. Wolfgang (Upper Austria), Feb. 1, 1878, 
d. Berlin (Germany), July 22, 1935, engineer and inventor; 1914 
invented an automatic bomb tripper with bombsight equipment for 
aeroplanes, 1919 developed the "Boykow photogrammeter", the solar 
compass (for R. Amundsen), and the "autopilot" (for the automatic 
steering of planes).



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