Elmer Ambrose Sperry Sr. was an American inventor and entrepreneur, most famous for construction, two years after Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe, of the gyrocompass and as founder of the Sperry Gyroscope Co
Elmer Ambrose Sperry
Sperry's stabilizing gyroscope installed in the USS Henderson
Aircraft gyrocompass built by Sperry
Elmer Ambrose Sperry demonstrating the operation of a searchlight
Sperry Corporation was a major American equipment and electronics company whose existence spanned more than seven decades of the 20th century. Sperry ceased to exist in 1986 following a prolonged host
Elmer Ambrose Sperry
…American inventor and entrepreneur, most famous for construction, two years after Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe, of the gyrocompass and as founder of the Sperry Gyroscope Company. He was known as the "father of modern navigation technology". Sperry's compasses and stabilizers were adopted by the United States Navy and used in…
Factory building, Brooklyn
M2 gun director 1932 in production
The Sperry Horizon, Sperry Gyroscope Co. Brooklyn N.Y.
Sperry Remington typewriter