Carl Lucas Norden (April 23, 1880 – June 14, 1965), born Carel Lucas van Norden, was an American engineer widely known for having invented the Norden bombsight. Norden was born in Semarang, Java. After attending a boarding school in Barneveld, Netherlands, he was educated at the ETH Zürich in Switzerland. He emigrated to the United States in 1904. The U.S. Government spent 1.5 billion dollars developing this bombsight for military work. Norden died in Zürich, Switzerland in 1965.