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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.
		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.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sperry_Corporation (567 words)

	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 AnschÃ¼tz-Kaempfe in 1908.
		Sperry's first model was installed on US battleship Delaware in 1911.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elmer_Ambrose_Sperry (145 words)

	USS Sperry AS-12
		SPERRY was commissioned on May 1, 1942, and delivered at that time to Captain R. SMITH, her first commanding officer.
		SPERRY steamed southeast from Ulithi and on December 4 crossed the equator.
		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.
	www.eta-carina-ltd.com /page7/sperry.html (1545 words)

	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.
		Sperry also organized the Sperry Electric Mining Machine Company and invented a continuous chain undercutter and an electric mine locomotive.
		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.
	www.invent.org /hall_of_fame/137.html (229 words)

	Sperry
		Elmer Ambrose Sperry was born on 12 October 1860 at Cortland, N.Y. After spending three years at the state normal school there, he became interested in dynamo electricity during a year of study at Cornell University in 1878 and 1879.
		Sperry (AS-12) was laid down on 1 February 1941 by the Moore Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. at Oakland, Calif.; launched on 17 December 1941, just 10 days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor; sponsored by Mrs.
		Sperry completed trials and shakedown training; and, on 2 August 1942, she reported for duty to the Commander, Submarines, Pacific, at Pearl Harbor.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/s16/sperry.htm (1083 words)

	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 (545 words)

	The Elmer A. Sperry Award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		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.
		The donors of the Elmer A. Sperry Award have stated that its purpose is to encourage progress in the engineering of transportation.
	www.asme.org /honors/sperry/history.html (362 words)

	Elmer Ambrose Sperry - Wikipedija
		Elmer Ambrose Sperry, ameriÅ¡ki izumitelj in podjetnik, * 12.
		Leta 1880 je Sperry v Chicagu, Illinois ustanovil druÅ¾bo Sperry Electric Company za proizvodnjo elektriÄnih dinam in obloÄnic, ki jih je kot najstnik izumil.
		Sperry je leta 1923 Michelsonu izdelal posebno osmerokotno vrteÄe se ogledalo, s katerim je Michelson meril svetlobno hitrost v praznem prostoru c.
	sl.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elmer_Ambrose_Sperry (134 words)

	Lawrence Sperry: Genius on Autopilot
		Sperry's entry was the sole participant equipped with a gyroscopic stabilizer apparatus, designed to improve stability and control.
		Sperry's device was mounted on a single-engine Curtiss C-2 biplane with a hydroplane fuselage.
		As an inventor, Elmer Sperry was generally regarded as being almost on a level with Thomas Edison.
	www.thehistorynet.com /ahi/bllawrencesperry (1235 words)

	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 (371 words)

	NewsScan Publishing Inc. - NewsScan Daily Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		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 (472 words)

	Sperry
		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.
		From an employee count of 600 in 1932, Sperry grew to a wartime peak of 32,000 in 1943.
		Sperry Rand Corporation was an early entry in the computer industry through its acquisitions of Engineering Research Associates and Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation.
	www.pxarchive.de /home/companies/sperry.html (673 words)

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		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.
		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.
	www.nationalaviation.org /website/index.asp?webpageid={F3401AC2-408C-42A7-AD0F-CDDC7942F110}&eID=277 (1243 words)

	Sperry Product Innovation - Product Design Services, Intellectual Property, Engineering, Patents, Industrial Design, ...
		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.
		Elmer Sperry, born in 1860 in Cortland, New York, was an established inventor and brilliant engineer.
		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.
	www.sperryinc.com /content_history.html (502 words)

	Original Artwork: Tom McNeely: Lawrence and Elmer Sperry
		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.
		Sperry also invented the gyrocompass, which was much more accurate than the normal magnetic compass, and the automatic pilot, which allowed pilots to fly long distances without constantly adjusting the aircraft controls.
		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.
	www.windriverstudios.com /EB5SCYNC.htm (443 words)

	Lawrence Burst Sperry 1892 - 1923 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		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 (456 words)

	Coral Sea Battle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		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 (326 words)

	Corporate Overview - Photo Essay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		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.
		Sperry, a conservative, properly dressed businessman with a perpetually quizzical cast to his eyebrows, flaunted convention and set himself up as an inventor.
		Elmer had accomplished a good deal of his inventing by 1903 and paid scant attention to the Wrights' first flight.
	www.gyropower.com.cnchost.com /corporate/c41essay.html (1868 words)

	[1.0] The Aerial Torpedo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Elmer Sperry was a bonafide genius with 350 patents to his name.
		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.
		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 (3234 words)

	Heinrich Beck: The Becksearchlight
		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".
		Decisive for the agreement out of court between GE and Sperry Gyroscope 1920 - and a hint to Sperry´s actual patent infringement - was the judgement on both sides that a comprehensive patent protection for the respective high intensity searchlight was not available.
		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 (4290 words)

	Inventor of the Week: Archive
		Elmer Ambrose Sperry is one of the foremost inventor-entrepreneurs of American history.
		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.
		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.
	www.mit.edu /afs/athena.mit.edu/org/i/invent/iow/sperry.html (330 words)

	Railroad collections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		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 (467 words)

	Elmer Ambrose Sperry Papers1889-1930
		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.
		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.
		Sperry's activities on the Naval Consulting Board are documented in letters to Thomas Edison, the board's head, in correspondence with Secretary of the Navy Josepheus Daniels and assistant secretary, Franklin D. Roosevelt.
	www.hagley.lib.de.us /1893.htm (3696 words)

	sperryhistory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In 1900, Sperry established an electrochemical laboratory at Washington, D.C. where he and his associate, C. Townshend, developed a process for making pure caustic soda from salt and discovered a process for recovering tin from scrap metal.
		Sperry (AS-12) was laid down on 1 February 1941 by the Mare Island Naval Shipyard Vallejo, CA.
		Sperry refitted seven submarines and made a voyage repair on one.
	sperryas12.homestead.com /sperryhistory.html (662 words)

	Corporate Overview - Photo Essay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		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 (1103 words)

	Tenders - USS Sperry AS 12 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Sperry (AS-12) was laid down on I February 1941 by the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, CA.; launched on 17 December 1941, just 10 days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor; sponsored by Mrs.
		Sperry earned the distinction of being the first Navy ship to be launched after "Pearl Harbor" on December 17, 1941 at the beginning of World War II - and achieved many successes in a career spanning some forty years.
		The Sperry swung from a buoy in the Sinclair Inlet of Pudget 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.
	www.mississippi.net /~comcents/tendertale.com/tenders/112/112.html (1664 words)

	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.
		Sperry showed a natural aptitude and interest in mechanical things during his youth.
		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 (213 words)

	SPERRY, Elmer Ambrose [1860-1930] -- American inventor, industrialist
		Sperry, Elmer Ambrose (1860-1930), American inventor and electrical engineer, who is best known for his inventions based on the application of the gyroscope.
		His son, Lawrence Burst Sperry, was also an inventor and an aviation pioneer.
		Elmer A. Sperry Elmer Ambrose Sperry at age six invented a horse radish grater for his aunt.
	freepages.history.rootsweb.com /~dav4is/people/SPER461.htm (357 words)

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