Elmer Ambrose Sperry Sr. (October 12, 1860 – June 16, 1930) was an American inventor and entrepreneur, most famous for construction, two years after Hermann...
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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...
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Elmer Sperry, succeeded in arousing the US Navy's interest. Sperry had been perfecting gyroscopes for naval use since 1896 and established the Sperry...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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The Elmer A. Sperry Award, named after the inventor and entrepreneur, is an American transportation engineering prize. It has been given since 1955 for...
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known as "caustic soda" and "lye," in a chloralkali process. Elmer Sperry, founder of Sperry Electric, and Leo Baekeland, inventor of Bakelite and Velox...
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Switzerland and then emigrated to the United States in 1904. Along with Elmer Sperry, Norden worked on the first gyrostabilizers for United States ships,...
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of the Sperry Corporation still in business. Sperry Marine is one of the oldest manufacturers of gyrocompasses. Its founder, Elmer Ambrose Sperry, was working...
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"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...
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Evans Sperry (1854–1930), American architect Lawrence Sperry (1892–c. 1923), American aviation pioneer, son of Elmer Ambrose Sperry Lewis Sperry (1848–1922)...
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represent engineers in all types of mobility-related professions. SAE member Elmer Sperry created the term "automotive" from Greek autos (self), and Latin motivus...
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workload. Lawrence Sperry, the son of famous inventor Elmer Sperry, demonstrated it in 1914 at an aviation safety contest held in Paris. Sperry demonstrated...
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campus Sperry Corporation, a former American equipment and electronics manufacturer (1910–1986) Sperry Gyroscope Company (1910–1933), founded by Elmer Ambrose...
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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...
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Wright, for development of his automatic stabilizer. 1914 – Elmer Sperry and Lawrence Sperry, for the invention of gyroscopic control. 1915 – W. Starling...
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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...
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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...
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Cincinnati Reds Elmer Snowden (1900–1973), American jazz musician Elmer Ambrose Sperry (1860–1930), American inventor and entrepreneur Elmer Steele (1886–1966)...
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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...
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patented in 1904 by German inventor Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe. American Elmer Sperry followed with his own design later that year, and other nations soon...
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Charles R. Price Louis Rau Frederick Sargent Frederick A. Scheffler Elmer Ambrose Sperry (1860–1930) Francis Robbins Upton, first president Theodore Vandeventer...
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missiles. Control was achieved using gyroscopes developed by Elmer Sperry of the Sperry Gyroscope Company. Later, in November 1917, the Automatic Airplane...
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and tested an early hydrofoil. In 1916, Hewitt joined Elmer Sperry to develop the Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane, one of the first successful precursors...
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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...
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[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...
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30 August 1913 when fitted with a gyroscopic stabiliser designed by Elmer Sperry. The same aircraft (by now redesignated AB-2) then became the first aircraft...
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Continuously the Proportion of Carbonic Acid Gas in the Flow of Furnace Gases" "Elmer Sperry Dies. Famous Inventor". The New York Times. June 17, 1930. Retrieved...
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