Question: What was Delco Carousel's development purpose for the Delco Electronics Corporation?
Context: The Delco ignition system, also known as the Kettering ignition system, is a type of Inductive discharge ignition system invented by Charles F. Kettering.  It was first sold commercially on the 1910 Cadillac and was manufactured by Delco.  Over time, this system was used extensively by all automobile and truck manufacturers until the development of capacitor discharge ignition (electronic ignition) systems in the 1960s.  Delco ignition systems were also used by a number of early aircraft engines. The Childers Farmstead is a historic farm property in rural southern White County, Arkansas.  It is located south of McRae, near the junction of Bowman and Rip Kirk Roads.  The farmstead includes three buildings: the main house, a large barn, and a small "Delco house", originally built to house electricity generation equipment provided by Delco Electronics.  The main house is a vernacular single story wood frame structure, with a hip roof and a shed-roof porch extending across its main (northern) facade.  That facade is symmetrically arranged, with Craftsman-style windows on either side of the entrance, which is flanked by half-length sidelights.  The house was built about 1925, and is an unusual example of a retro version of Greek Revival architecture with Craftsman features. Delco Electronics Corporation was the automotive electronics design and manufacturing subsidiary of General Motors based in Kokomo, Indiana.  The name Delco came from the Dayton Engineering Laboratories Co., founded in Dayton, Ohio, by Charles Kettering and Edward A. Deeds in 1909.  Delco was responsible for several innovations in automobile electric systems, including the first reliable battery ignition system and the first practical automobile self-starter. The Delco Carousel was a popular INS-based navigation automation system for aircraft developed by Delco Electronics.  Before the advent of sophisticated flight management systems, the Carousel allowed pilots to automate navigation of an aircraft along a series of waypoints that they entered via a control console in the cockpit.  The Carousel used an INS as its position reference for navigation.  Many aircraft were equipped with dual or triple Carousels for redundancy. The 1923 Chevrolet Series C Copper-Cooled was an automobile made to be completely air-cooled by Chevrolet in 1923.  It was designed by Charles F. Kettering, head engineer of Delco Electronics, the General Motors research division wing in Dayton, Ohio.  The automobile used a body style from its predecessor, but incorporated an air-cooled engine.  Air cooling, as opposed to water-based cooling, was much more practical in a sense because it did not require a radiator, nor the piping that came with it.  Although air cooling was not new to the time period, it was new to engines of that scale.  The Copper-Cooled Chevrolet was in fact a feasible project; however, the final product did not live up to the standards that Kettering had imagined.  The car dangerously overheated in hot weather, and posed a safety hazard to the drivers.  Only a few made it to the sales floor, only to be recalled and destroyed by Chevrolet.  The 1923 Chevrolet Series C Copper-Cooled consumed extensive amounts of resources to develop and was a failure in the end. ACDelco is an American automotive parts brand owned by General Motors (GM).  Factory parts for vehicles manufactured by GM are consolidated under the ACDelco brand, which also offers aftermarket parts for non-GM vehicles.  Over its long history it has been known by various names such as United Motors Corporation, United Motors Service, and United Delco.  The brand "ACDelco" should not be confused with GM's former AC Delco Systems, formed in 1994 from the merger of AC Rochester Division and Delco Remy Division.  In 1995 Delphi Automotive Systems absorbed AC Delco Systems. CTI Electronics Corporation is a manufacturer of industrial computer peripherals such as rugged keyboards, pointing devices, motion controllers, analog joysticks, USB keypads and many other industrial, military, medical, or aerospace grade input devices.  CTI Electronics Corporation products are made in the United States and it is a well-known supplier of input devices to some of the most notable private defense contractors in the world, including Lockheed Martin, DRS Technologies, Computer Sciences Corporation, General Dynamics, BAE Systems, L3 Communications, AAI, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Boeing, Thales Group and many more companies that provide security and defense around the world.  CTI also supplies Homeland Security and United States Department of Defense supporting their efforts in protecting and serving the country and military personnel of the United States. Magne Charge is a largely obsolete inductive charging system, also known as J1773, used to charge battery electric vehicles (BEV) formerly made by General Motors, for vehicles such as the EV1, Chevy S10 EV, and other .  It was produced by the General Motors subsidiary Delco Electronics.  It is still used by a few hundred first generation Toyota RAV4 EV electric vehicles.  As these first generation Toyota RAV4 EV electric vehicles retire from the roadways, Magne Charge will be completely obsolete since no existing or future electric vehicles can use it.  The 2012 Gen 2 RAV4 EV, as well as the Nissan Leaf and Chevrolet Volt, use J1772 instead of the obsolete Magne Charge. Dr. Sivasubramanian Srikantan (Popularly known as Dr.S.Srikantan) Dob: 6-9-1933 Dod 19-8-2006 was an Indian scientist, research lead, former Managing Director – Karnataka State Electronics Development Corporation Ltd (KEONICS), Chairman – Yokogawa Keonics Ltd, Director – Krone Communications Ltd, Managing Director – Andhra Pradesh Electronics Development Corporation Ltd (APEDC), Head, Computer Group – Electronics Corporation of India Ltd (ECIL), Group Leader – Babha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), and Chairman – ASM Technologies Ltd. (1992-2006) In 1986, the GM Motorsports group asked Delco Electronics Corporation (December), a subsidiary of GM Hughes Electronics (headquarters – Kokomo, Indiana) if an electronic engine management system could be developed for the Chevy Indy V8 engines used in the CART open-wheel race series.  Delco Electronics had been supplying all GM automobiles sold in the USA with Engine Control Modules (ECMs) since 1981 when the USA Clean Air Act required 3-way catalytic converters and controlled air-fuel ratios.  The production ECMs were becoming more complex, and were becoming powertrain controllers controlling the transmission, spark timing, Idle speed, as well as air-fuel intake mixtures.
Answer: navigation automation system for aircraft