Robert C. Duncan (engineer)

Born in Jonesville, Virginia[1] and raised in Xenia, Ohio, Duncan received an appointment to the United States Naval Academy Class of 1946.

His 1954 master's thesis was entitled Fundamental design principles of an attack simulator for airborne fire control systems.

In the closing months of World War II, he was assigned to the heavy cruiser Bremerton but did not see combat.

After that, he spent a year back in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as assistant director of the Electronics Research Center.

Duncan left the government in 1968 to work for the Polaroid Corporation, where he first served as program manager of the SX-70 camera, with responsibilities for its design, engineering, and production.