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  Sperry Product Innovation
Sperry Product Innovation is a full-service product development company that specializes in the creation of patentable technologies.
Sperry Product Innovation has delivered groundbreaking technology with twenty-year patent protection for many of our customers, creating new market sales in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
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  Sperry Remington 661D & 661
Sperry and Remington had long and varied histories.
Sperry Gyroscope was interested in Remington Rand because of the UNIVAC, the first commerically available computer, which Remington Rand produced and delivered to the U.S. Census Bureau in 1951.
In 1986 Sperry Corporation merged with Burroughs Corporation to form Unisys.
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 Sperry Corporation - Definition, explanation
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.
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  Wayne E. Ferrel , Jr.
Sperry raises several issues involving the denial of a directed verdict, refusal and acceptance of certain jury instructions, the use of prior inconsistent statements, the denial of certain expert testimony and the use by Prestage of an improper theory of recovery.
Sperry claims that, as a matter of law, a deformity of the auger guard of up to one inch proves that the combine has been altered and, therefore, shows that its combine was not defective.
Sperry sought to introduce evidence that portions of the combine unrelated to the area in which the plaintiff was injured had fallen into a state of disrepair and that certain guards had been removed over the life of the machine.
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 Elmer A. Sperry - Company History
Sperry founded his first company in 1880 in Chicago.
The Sperry Electric Company manufactured the electric dynamos and arc lamps that Sperry had invented as a teenager.
The company was briefly renamed "Sperry Rand," but in 1978 it decided to concentrate on its computing interests and reverted back to "Sperry Corporation." In 1986, Sperry Corporation merged with Burroughs Corporation to form Unisys Corporation.
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 Univac
The Univac division of Remington Rand was renamed Sperry Univac.
In 1978 Sperry Rand decided to concentrate on its computing interests and unrelated divisions were sold.
In 1986 Sperry Corporation was purchased by Burroughs Corporation to become Unisys.
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 FindLaw for Legal Professionals - Case Law, Federal and State Resources, Forms, and Code
Sperry renewed its challenge to the deduction in the Claims Court, arguing that the 1 1/2% deduction authorized by 502 was unconstitutional.
Sperry argues that the deduction is a part of Congress' scheme to shift to American claimants against Iran those costs of settling the diplomatic crisis that should have been borne by the Nation as a whole.
Sperry responds that the 502 charge cannot be upheld as a user fee because there has been no showing that the amount of the deduction approximates the cost of the Tribunal to the United States or bears any relationship to Sperry's use of the Tribunal or the value of the Tribunal's services to Sperry.
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 Sperry Marine: History of Sperry Marine
The history of Sperry Gyroscope and its successor companies and that heritage that ultimately resides with Sperry Marine, is one that follows the basic tenets of the founder himself.
During her absence, Elmer Sperry arranged with the Bureau of Ordnance of the U.S. Navy to have another of his gyros installed aboard the U.S.S. From this trial resulted the Repeater Compass and the target bearing pointer.
From an employee count of 600 in 1932, Sperry grew to a wartime peak of 32,000 in 1943.
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 SPERRY CORPORATION
Sperry Corporation began in 1910 as the Sperry Gyroscope Company, founded by Elmer Ambrose Sperry to manufacture navigation equipment, chiefly his own inventions - the marine gyrostabilizer and the gyrocompass.
The new corporation was a holding company for a number of smaller entities such as the original Sperry Gyroscope, but also Ford Instrument Company, Intercontinental Aviation, Inc. and others.
The takeover came about even after Sperry Corporations used a "poisoned pill" in the form of a major share price hike to dissuade the hostile takeover bid and as a result Burroughs had to borrow much more from the banks than was anticipated in order to complete its bid.
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 Grace Murray Hopper
Admiral Hopper took military leave from the Sperry Corporation from 1967 until her retirement in 1971.
She participated in a public demonstration by Sperry Corporation and RCA of COBOL compilers and the machine independence they provided.
In 1971, the Sperry Corporation initiated an annual award in her name to honor young computer professionals for their significant contributions to computer science.
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 The Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention & Innovation
In April 1933 it became a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Sperry Corporation and was merged into it as a division in December 1947.
Sperry Rand was renamed the Sperry Corporation in July 1979, and in November 1986 it merged with the Burroughs Corporation to form the Unisys Corporation.
Sperry Gyroscope and an associated firm, the Ford Instrument Company, Inc., were spun off to a new holding company, the Sperry Corporation, in April 1933, which, with the breakup of North American Aviation, became an independent company.
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 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Sperry Corporation (1910-1986) was a major American equipment and electronics company whose existence spanned more than seven decades of the twentieth century.
Sperry Flight Systems continued to excel at aviation electronics - avionics - and it also provided avionics systems for such NASA programs as the Space Shuttle.
Sperry also was the creator of the infamous Ball Turret Gun that was mounted under the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and the Consolidated B-24 Liberator, as commemorated by the films Memphis Belle and the poem The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner.
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 The Machine Room :: Univac   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Univac division of Remington Rand was renamed Sperry Univac.
In 1978 Sperry Rand decided to concentrate on its computing interests and unrelated divisions were sold.
In 1986 Sperry Corporation was purchased by Burroughs Corporation to become Unisys.
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 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.
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Regarding their contract claims, the retirees relied on the explicit lifetime language in the plans, e.g., "when you retire, your medical benefit will be continued for the rest of your life", and on statements made by the company both orally and in writing to the same effect.[fn5] The Medflex SPD is illustrative.
The Sperry retirees additionally contend that the district court erred in failing to sustain the separate contract claims of the "early retirees" or "VRIF" ("Voluntary Reduction in Force") retirees.
A subgroup of Sperry retirees who retired pursuant to a voluntary reduction in force asserted a separate contract claim of their own that the company had induced them to retire earlier than they would have done by representing that if they retired, they would preserve the post-retirement coverage in effect under then current plans.
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Regarding their contract claims, the retirees relied on the explicit lifetime language in the plans, e.g., "when you retire, your medical benefit will be continued for the rest of your life," and on statements to the same effect made by the company both orally and in writing.
A summary of any material modification in terms of the plan and any change in the information required under subsection (b) of this section shall be written in a manner calculated to be understood by the average plan participant and shall be furnished in accordance with section 1024(b)(1) of this title.
The district court quoted testimony from Sperry's former Senior Vice President for Personnel, Frank Sweeten, who acknowledged that the lifetime promises made by Unisys to retiring employees was an influence in retirement decisions: We said that this is yours for life.
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 Provenance, ENIAC Trial Exhibits Guide
Sperry Rand Corporation and Illinois Scientific Instruments, Inc. This case was filed and heard in the U.S. District Court, Fourth Division of Minnesota at Minneapolis between 1967 and 1973.
Historians of science and technology generally regard Honeywell vs. Sperry Rand as the definitive forum for the debate over and settlement of all patent and other intellectual property claims to the invention of the computer.
The Sperry Corporation turned this collection over to the University of Pennsylvania in 1974, primarily for the use of John G. Brainerd, who, in 1945-46, was an associate professor of electrical engineering at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering and the faculty supervisor of the ENIAC project.
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 Guide to ENIAC Patent Trial Collection, 1864-1973, University of Pennsylvania Archives
By 1964 Sperry Rand was able to secure a stronger position on their claims to the electronic computer by being granted the ENIAC patent filed in 1947.
Because of their former difficulties with Sperry Rand in the early 1960's and anticipated difficulties from a possible suit to collect royalties, Honeywell filed a suit against Sperry Rand in 1967 on the grounds of anti-trust violations and unjustified claims to the electronic computer.
Sperry Rand contented that the ENIAC was solely the invention of Eckert and Mauchly; however, Honeywell stated that Eckert and Mauchly had taken the idea from John Vincent Atanasoff and his assistant Clifford Berry.
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 65 Comp
Sperry essentially complains that the award was improper due to the Air Force's failure to conduct technical discussions during the source selection process.
Sperry argues that since its proposal was determined to be technically acceptable by the Air Force's evaluators and, hence, within the competitive range [FN1], the agency's failure to afford the firm the opportunity to *197 submit a revised technical proposal was inherently prejudicial with regard to the firm's competitive standing among the offerors.
With regard to Sperry's initial technical proposal, we cannot find that the proposal was deficient to the extent that, even if discussions had been held to allow for the correction of individual deficiencies, the firm had no chance of being selected for the award.
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 UNIVAC at AllExperts
The UNIVAC division of Remington Rand was renamed the Univac division of Sperry Rand.
In 1978 Sperry Rand, an old fashioned conglomerate of disharmonious divisions (computers, typewriters, office furniture, hay balers, manure spreaders, gyroscopes, avionics, radar, electric razors), decided to concentrate on its computing interests and unrelated divisions were sold.
Since the 1986 marriage of Burroughs and Sperry, Unisys has metamorphosed from a computer manufacturer to a computer services and outsourcing firm, competing in the same marketplace as IBM, Electronic Data Systems (EDS), and Computer Sciences Corporation.However, Unisys still continues to design and manufacture enterprise class computers with the ClearPath and ES7000 server lines.
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 UNIVAC Summary
The UNIVAC division of Remington Rand was renamed the Univac division of Sperry Rand.
In 1978 Sperry Rand, an old fashioned conglomerate of disharmonious divisions (computers, typewriters, office furniture, hay balers, manure spreaders, gyroscopes, avionics, radar, electric razors), decided to concentrate on its computing interests and unrelated divisions were sold.
Sperry Univac's UNIVAC 1100 series of computers, introduced in December 1969 and was absolutely identical to the UNIVAC 1108 in instruction set.
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Sperry Corporation itself had a long and varied history before its merger with Burroughs Corporation.
Sperry Gyroscope Company was incorporated in 1929, and in 1933, Sperry Corporation was incorporated as a holding company of other small firms, including Sperry Gyroscope, Ford Instrument Company, and Intercontinental Aviation, Inc. In 1955 it acquired Remington Rand, a company with its own complicated history.
By the time of the merger with Burroughs Corporation in 1986, Sperry Rand had dropped the Rand part of its name, and was simply known as the Sperry Corporation.
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 Sperry Corporation - Helionica
Sperry Corporation - amerykańska firma informatyczna powstała w 1910 r.
W 1933 firma została przemianowana na Sperry Corporation, a w 1955 połączyła się z Remington Rand, tworząc Sperry Rand.
W 1960 Sperry wprowadziła na rynek komputery serii 1100 - wersja 1108 była pierwszym komputerem wieloprocesorowym.
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 The Trial
United States District Judge Earl Richard Larson came to an early conclusion that the Honeywell case against Sperry Rand would be a long and complicated one, and that it would consume essentially all of the time of one of the U.S. District judges in Minnesota for a period of at least a year.
Sperry Rand Lawyer Ferrill argued that it was hearsay and irrelevant communication to a person not involved in the litigation.
Under questioning by Sperry Rand Lawyer DeLone, Mauchly told about his education and career from his days at McKinley Technical High School where he was so precocious in science and mathematics that he was frequently left to teach the class.
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 Sperry Rand Corporation - UNIVAC Computer maker
In 1955, Sperry and Remington Rand merged to form Sperry Rand.
In 1986 Sperry Rand and Burroughs merged to form Unisys Corporation.
Sperry introduces 2200 Series, forerunner of the current ClearPath HMP IX system.
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