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Sperry Corporation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sperry Corporation was a major American equipment and electronics company whose existence spanned more than seven decades of the twentieth century. The takeover came about even after Sperry Rand used a " poison pill " in the form of a major share price hike to dissuade the hostile bid, as a result of which Burroughs had to borrow much more from the banks than was anticipated in order to complete the bid. In 1978 Sperry Rand decided to concentrate on its computing interests and a number of divisions including Remington Rand Systems, Remington Rand Machines, Ford Instrument Company, Sperry Aerospace and Sperry Vickers were sold. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sperry_Corporation

Elmer Ambrose Sperry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Elmer Ambrose Sperry ( October 12, 1860 - June 16, 1930) was an inventor and entrepreneur. The latter was founded to manufacture Sperry's development of the gyrocompass, originally invented by Herman Anschütz-Kaempfe in 1908. Sperry's first model was installed on US battleship Delaware in 1911. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elmer_Ambrose_Sperry

Elmer Ambrose Sperry - Wikipedija Elmer Ambrose Sperry, ameriški izumitelj in podjetnik, * 12. Sperry je leta 1923 Michelsonu izdelal posebno osmerokotno vrteče se ogledalo, s katerim je Michelson meril svetlobno hitrost v praznem prostoru c. Leta 1880 je Sperry v Chicagu, Illinois ustanovil družbo Sperry Electric Company za proizvodnjo električnih dinam in obločnic, ki jih je kot najstnik izumil. sl.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elmer_Ambrose_Sperry

USS Sperry AS-12 The Sperry swung from a buoy in the Sinclair Inlet of Puget Sound in Washington State for several years after decommissioning, and during that time she was cannibalized for any and all parts and equipment that could be salvaged. SPERRY steamed southeast from Ulithi and on December 4 crossed the equator. SPERRY was commissioned on May 1, 1942, and delivered at that time to Captain R. SMITH, her first commanding officer. www.eta-carina-ltd.com /page7/sperry.html

Station Information - Elmer Ambrose Sperry Elmer Ambrose Sperry ( 12 October 1860 - 16 June 1930) was an electrical engineer who founded the Sperry Gyroscope Company in 1910 to manufacture navigation equipment, including Sperry's marine gyrostabilizer and gyrocompass.The firm became the Sperry Corporation. www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/e/el/elmer_ambrose_sperry.html

Cortland NY > Community > Local History > Elmer Sperry When Elmer Ambrose Sperry at age six invented a horse radish grater for his aunt, who could have foreseen that it presaged a long life as a world-renowned inventor or that throughout his lifetime he would keep in touch with the Finger Lakes community that claims him as a native son. Mementoes of Sperry's genius and of his rich, warm personal life are treasured by the Cortland County Historical Society and may be seen at the Society's attractive museum, Sugget House, in Cortland. Sperry was born October 12, 1860 at the home of his maternal grandparents in Cincinnatus, where his mother died a day after his birth. www.cortland.org /community/history/sperry.htm

The Elmer A. Sperry Award The donors of the Elmer A. Sperry Award have stated that its purpose is to encourage progress in the engineering of transportation. Elmer Sperry's inventions and his activities in many fields of engineering have tremendously benefited all forms of transportation. The Elmer A. Sperry Award was established by Elmer Sperry's daughter, Helen (Mrs. www.asme.org /honors/sperry/history.html

Sperry Product Innovation - Product Design Services, Intellectual Property, Engineering, Patents, Industrial Design, and Design for Manufacturing Elmer Sperry is responsible for starting eight companies that made significant contributions to the American wartime effort as well as modern-day military and commercial transportation and many other areas of modern life. Elmer Sperry, born in 1860 in Cortland, New York, was an established inventor and brilliant engineer. Sperry Product Innovation’s President, Laurence Sperry is the great-grandson of famous inventor, Elmer Sperry and grandnephew to Elmer’s son Lawrence Sperry for whom he is named. www.sperryinc.com /content_history.html

Invent Now Hall of Fame Search Inventor Profile Elmer Ambrose Sperry invented gyroscope-guided automatic pilots for ships and airplanes that have also been applied to spacecraft. Born in Cortland, New York, Sperry completed his formal education at the State Normal and Training School in Cortland and formed the first of his eight companies, the Sperry Electric Company, at the age of 20. Sperry also organized the Sperry Electric Mining Machine Company and invented a continuous chain undercutter and an electric mine locomotive. www.invent.org /hall_of_fame/137.html

NewsScan Publishing Inc. - NewsScan Daily Archives Today's Honorary Subscriber is the versatile American inventor and engineer Elmer Sperry (1860-1930), whose many patented inventions contributed to the development of the electric light and power industries as well as the other leading technologies of his time, including industrial chemistry and mining machinery. Sperry was born in Cortland, New York, and while attending the Cortland Normal School he also audited lectures on electrical science and technology at nearby Cornell University. Sperry's greatest inventions grew from converting the gyroscope, first designed as a toy, into a stable gyrocompass, making it the first essential improvement of the compass in a thousand years. www.newsscan.com /cgi-bin/findit_view?table=honorary_subscriber&id=677

Who Made America? Innovators Elmer Sperry Elmer Ambrose Sperry is noted as the "father of modern navigation technology." Born in Cortland, New York, in 1860, Sperry was educated at the State Normal and Training School. By the time Sperry had established himself as an accomplished inventor, a man named G. Hopkins had invented the first electrical gyroscope -- a disk mounted so that it remained in a fixed position despite the movements of its base. Sperry's gyroscope technology was later applied to guide torpedoes, steer ships, and stabilize airplanes, ships and spacecraft. www.pbs.org /wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/sperry_hi.html

Lawrence Burst Sperry   1892 - 1923 The Sperry name was well known in technical circles for its founder, Elmer Sperry. Sperry factories in Brooklyn and Lake Success employed large number of workers and were one of the most predominant aviation company on Long Island during this century. Lawrence Burst Sperry, who acquired the nickname "Gyro," was born in 1892 and was to become of age just in time for the development era of aviation. www.aviationonlongisland.com /sperry/early.htm

Lawrence Sperry: Genius on Autopilot As an inventor, Elmer Sperry was generally regarded as being almost on a level with Thomas Edison. Sperry's device was mounted on a single-engine Curtiss C-2 biplane with a hydroplane fuselage. Sperry's entry was the sole participant equipped with a gyroscopic stabilizer apparatus, designed to improve stability and control. www.thehistorynet.com /ahi/bllawrencesperry

Information about U.S. FDC: 39¢ Lawrence and Elmer Sperry Airmail: Aviation Pioneers Series Elmer Sperry, American inventor and industrialist was concerned about the problem of flying blind and with the help of aviator James H. Doolittle developed the Sperry Artificial Horizon, which gave pilots an immediate indication of whether the plane was climbing, diving, or turning. Elmer Sperry was aided in the testing of many of his inventions by his son Lawrence, who was an aviation genius in his own right. U.S. FDC: 39¢ Lawrence and Elmer Sperry Airmail: Aviation Pioneers Series www.unicover.com /EA1CAGV8.HTM

ELMER AMBROSE SPERRY - ANNOTATED SIGNATURE(S) 04/08/1926 ELMER A. Inventor of the gyroscope and gyrocompass. Sperry founded eight manufacturing companies and took out over 400 patents. After inventing gyroscopic compasses and stabilizers for ships and airplanes, he organized the Sperry Gyroscope Company (1910) for manufacturing these instruments and remained its President until 1929. www.galleryofhistory.com /archive/10_2000/master/elmer_ambrose_sperry.htm

index.asp?webpageid={F3401AC2-408C-42A7-AD0F-CDDC7942F110}&eID=277 At this point Dr. Sperry invented a radically improved gyrostabilizer, in which all of the gyros were mounted on a single platform that could maintain a horizontal reference position, a basic concept later used in guiding aircraft, missiles, and spacecraft. In failure, Sperry reflected: "Of all the vehicles on Earth, the airplane is that particular beast of burden which is obsessed with motions, accelerations and strong centrifugal moments, all in an endless variety and endless combination." Sperry conceived of several small gyros to control a plane's yaw, pitch and roll by moving the pilot's controls. www.nationalaviation.org /website/index.asp?webpageid={F3401AC2-408C-42A7-AD0F-CDDC7942F110}&eID=277

Inventor of the Week: Archive Elmer Ambrose Sperry is one of the foremost inventor-entrepreneurs of American history. Graphics courtesy of Sperry Marine Inc. To visit their site, and to read about Elmer Sperry's work and the later history of his companies, go to http://www.sperry-marine.com/pages/history.htm. Hopkins' modification, as Sperry and others saw, made practical the possibility that the gyroscope, once a mere curiosity, could be turned into a reliable reference device in steel ships, where a standard magnetic compass was unreliable. www.mit.edu /afs/athena.mit.edu/org/i/invent/iow/sperry.html

Corporate Overview - Photo Essay Elmer Ambrose Sperry - the name goes back to the settlement of New England in the 1600s - studied engineering and then felt the excitement that seemed to grip the world at the dawn of the 20th century. L&E - Lawrence & Elmer Sperry at Bezons Air Show, 1914. Sperry, a conservative, properly dressed businessman with a perpetually quizzical cast to his eyebrows, flaunted convention and set himself up as an inventor. www.gyropower.com.cnchost.com /corporate/c41essay.html

Coral Sea Battle Elmer Sperry was an American inventor and electrical engineer best known for his inventions based on the application of the gyroscope. Sperry was born in Cortland, New York and educated at Cornell University. Sperry's most important invention was the gyrocompass which, unlike other compasses, was not affected by the magnetism of the earth. home.vicnet.net.au /~gcasey/gyrocompass.html

[1.0] The Aerial Torpedo Elmer Sperry was enthusiastic about the aerial torpedo, believing that it would be such a destructive weapon that it would discourage people from starting wars. Elmer Sperry was a bonafide genius with 350 patents to his name. Sperry was to first install an autopilot system on conventional Curtis aircraft, and then work with Curtis to build a true aerial torpedo. www.vectorsite.net /twcruz1.html

Elmer Ambrose Sperry Papers1889-1930 Elmer Sperry's most important contribution to technological development was his ability to apply the principles of the gyroscope to the problems associated with airplane and marine control and stabilization. There are also a few folders of personnel material, including correspondence with individual employees that reflect Elmer Sperry's paternalistic approach to industrial relations. Sperry's patent records show that he made three major improvements in the generator as he designed what was, at the time, considered to be an unusually efficient armature. www.hagley.lib.de.us /1893.htm

Sperry In 1928, Elmer Sperry sold the Sperry Gyroscope Company to the North American Aviation Company. From an employee count of 600 in 1932, Sperry grew to a wartime peak of 32,000 in 1943. From a Ginzton interview: "Lab #13 at Sperry was responsible in the field of microwave measurements, and there was another lab responsible for developing the klystron, and another lab still separate from that, for the development called Doppler radar. www.pxarchive.de /home/companies/sperry.html

Heinrich Beck: The Becksearchlight Before it Elmer A. Sperry had futilely tried to buy the inventor's rights. Sperry was willing to guarantee him a percentage of the royalty, should he buy the patents, because of Beck's early work in the "general line". Although Sperry had to acknowledge the priority of the GE /Becksearchlight no demands for royalties could be claimed after the United States entered the war. www.becklaser.de /hbeng/bscheinw.html

Corporate Overview - Photo Essay There in a small frame house, Elmer Sperry was born on October 21, 1860, in pathetic circumstances. Aunt Helen Sperry had the melancholy experience of carrying the baby to the Sperry farm. Little more is known about the birth and death except that the mother was weak, lonely, and frightened in the days before she died. gyromedia.org /corporate/c42essay.html

Railroad collections The ARA contracted with Sperry to manufacture a rail detector car, initializing a method by which the magnetic detection equipment (invented by Elmer A. Sperry in 1923) contacted the rail. The history of this device, including its conception by Elmer A. Sperry in 1923 utilizing a magnetic field passed over the rail and later improvements including an ultra-sonic system is presented in a publication of the American Society for Nondestructive Testing, Materials Evaluation, March, 1985. A detailed chronology of Sperry Rail Service (SRS) actions in collaboration with the American Railway Association (ARA) in the early development of the period (1926-1940) lists correspondence, memoranda and reports on the design and manufacture of the first Sperry rail detector cars, delivered to ARA in 1928. americanhistory.si.edu /archives/d8497.htm

The Elmer A The Elmer A. Sperry Award was established in 1955 to commemorate the life of Elmer A. Sperry, whose inventions, including the gyroscope, the first electric automobile, air and sea navigational aids, and many others, contributed to the advancement of many modes of transportation. Initially formed by the four Societies in which Elmer Sperry was most active, the Board added the Institute of Aerospace Science (now AIAA) in 1962. To stimulate innovation in many fields, the Sperry Award recognizes “a distinguished engineering contribution which, through application, proved in actual service, has advanced the art of transportation, whether by land, sea, or air. www.sname.org /newsletter/Sperry.html

Kitty Hawk to World War II Elmer Ambrose Sperry - Elmer Ambrose Sperry Born: 1860 Birthplace: Cortland, N.Y. Gyroscopic compass—The gyroscope... Elmer Ambrose Sperry - Sperry, Elmer Ambrose, 1860–1930, American inventor, b. Roger Wolcott Sperry - Sperry, Roger Wolcott, 1913–94, American biologist, b. www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0872854.html

Elmer A. Sperry Biography / Profile of Elmer A. Sperry Biographies The technical achievements of Elmer A. Sperry (1860-1930) made him one of the most prolific and capable inventors in American history. Born on October 21, 1860, Elmer Sperry grew up near the small town of Cortland, New York. Sperry constantly read in the technical library of the local Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA), and during a YMCA-sponsored trip to the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia he was exposed to the inventions and technical..... www.bookrags.com /biography/elmer-a-sperry

Sperry, Elmer Ambrose --  Encyclopædia Britannica The American engineer and inventor Elmer Ambrose Sperry founded eight different companies during his lifetime to manufacture and market his many inventions, which ranged all the way... More results on "Sperry, Elmer Ambrose" when you join. "Sperry, Elmer Ambrose." Encyclopædia Britannica from Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service. www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9069088

Sperry - Gyroscope Elmer Sperry is remembered as the father of modern navigation technology. Among the more than 350 patents Elmer Ambrose Sperry earned, was the gyroscopic compass. This compass made autopilot steering possible in both air and sea travel. nationalaviation.devatwork.com /index.asp?webpageid={4DB2EB1A-0840-4BF8-AA81-05D6BE8E40FD}

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