Elmer Ambrose Sperry Sr. (October 12, 1860 – June 16, 1930) was an American inventor and entrepreneur, most famous for construction, two years after Hermann...

company was founded by Elmer Ambrose Sperry. The company was incorporated on April 14 1910 by Elmer Ambrose Sperry as the Sperry Gyroscope Company, to...

the artificial horizon. Sperry was the third son of the gyrocompass co-inventor, Elmer Ambrose Sperry, and his wife Zula. Sperry invented the first autopilot...

Elmer Sperry, succeeded in arousing the US Navy's interest. Sperry had been perfecting gyroscopes for naval use since 1896 and established the Sperry...

USS Sperry (AS-12) was a Fulton-class submarine tender in the United States Navy. She was named for Elmer Sperry. Sperry was laid down on 1 February 1941...

Sperry Rail Service (reporting mark SRSX) is a rail inspection company founded in 1928 by Elmer Ambrose Sperry. The company was the first in the world...

referring to any form of self-powered vehicle. This term, as proposed by Elmer Sperry[need quotation to verify] (1860–1930), first came into use to describe...

The Elmer A. Sperry Award, named after the inventor and entrepreneur, is an American transportation engineering prize. It has been given since 1955 for...

workload. Lawrence Sperry, the son of famous inventor Elmer Sperry, demonstrated it in 1914 at an aviation safety contest held in Paris. Sperry demonstrated...

Switzerland and then emigrated to the United States in 1904. Along with Elmer Sperry, Norden worked on the first gyrostabilizers for United States ships,...

known as "caustic soda" and "lye," in a chloralkali process. Elmer Sperry, founder of Sperry Electric, and Leo Baekeland, inventor of Bakelite and Velox...

represent engineers in all types of mobility-related professions. SAE member Elmer Sperry created the term "automotive" from Greek autos (self), and Latin motivus...

"aerial torpedo" in the Navy) was undertaken by Elmer Sperry for the US Navy in 1916, called the Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane, and was based on a Curtiss...

campus Sperry Corporation, a former American equipment and electronics manufacturer (1910–1986) Sperry Gyroscope Company (1910–1933), founded by Elmer Ambrose...

Evans Sperry (1854–1930), American architect Lawrence Sperry (1892–c. 1923), American aviation pioneer, son of Elmer Ambrose Sperry Lewis Sperry (1848–1922)...

Ambrose Swasey 1925 John Frank Stevens 1926 Edward Dean Adams 1927 Elmer Ambrose Sperry 1928 John Joseph Carty 1929 Herbert Clark Hoover 1930 Ralph Modjeski...

of the Sperry Corporation still in business. Sperry Marine is one of the oldest manufacturers of gyrocompasses. Its founder, Elmer Ambrose Sperry, was working...

1868. Another early example of a PID-type controller was developed by Elmer Sperry in 1911 for ship steering, though his work was intuitive rather than...

Wright, for development of his automatic stabilizer. 1914 – Elmer Sperry and Lawrence Sperry, for the invention of gyroscopic control. 1915 – W. Starling...

While testing an early turn and slip indicator devised by his friend Elmer Sperry in 1918, United States Army Air Corps pilot William Ocker entered a graveyard...

introduced by Sperry Rail Service (Named after Dr. Elmer Sperry), by the 1960s Ultrasonic Inspection Systems had been added to the entire Sperry Fleet. Rail...

missiles. Control was achieved using gyroscopes developed by Elmer Sperry of the Sperry Gyroscope Company. Later, in November 1917, the Automatic Airplane...

and Elmer Sperry; however he dropped out of school when he was 18 and married his pregnant girlfriend. He was one of the first employees at the Sperry Gyroscope...

Charles R. Price Louis Rau Frederick Sargent Frederick A. Scheffler Elmer Ambrose Sperry (1860–1930) Francis Robbins Upton, first president Theodore Vandeventer...

Cincinnati Reds Elmer Snowden (1900–1973), American jazz musician Elmer Ambrose Sperry (1860–1930), American inventor and entrepreneur Elmer Steele (1886–1966)...

and tested an early hydrofoil. In 1916, Hewitt joined Elmer Sperry to develop the Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane, one of the first successful precursors...

patented in 1904 by German inventor Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe. American Elmer Sperry followed with his own design later that year, and other nations soon...

ships which were the largest passenger ship when launched. He won the Elmer A. Sperry Award in 2016. He is a visiting professor at the University of Strathclyde...

engineer, inventor, entrepreneur, manager, astronomer, and philanthropist Elmer Sperry, inventor and entrepreneur Elihu Thomson, engineer and inventor John...

[permanent dead link] "Elmer Batters". April 27, 2005. Retrieved July 11, 2017. Batters, Elmer (1998). Legs That Dance to Elmer's Tune. Taschen. ISBN 3-8228-8188-0...