Origin of the Flight Computer?

[Mtns2Skies]

As I was planning my first cross country flight I grew a loving appreciation for the mechanical flight computer. It made the planning drastically easier, I couldn't imagine what the calculations would be like without this magic math tool. I was wondering who created it and what they did for a living.

 

[dmccormack]

Philip Dalton

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E6B