Elmer Ambrose Sperry

Elmer Ambrose Sperry (October 12, 1860 - June 16, 1930) was an inventor and entrepreneur. Born Cortland, New York, died Brooklyn, New York.

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October 12 - 1860 - June 16 - 1930 - Inventor - Entrepreneur - Cortland, New York - Brooklyn, New York

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In 1880, he founded the Sperry Electric Company in Chicago, Illinois to manufacture the electric dynamos and arc lamps that he had invented as a teenager. Over the next fifty years, he founded seven more companies to manufacture his own inventions, including:

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1880 - Sperry Electric Company - Chicago, Illinois

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• Sperry Electric Mining Machine Company (1888);
• Sperry Electric Railway Company (1894);
• Chicago Fuse Wire Company (1900); and
• Sperry Gyroscope Company (1910).

The latter was founded to manufacture Sperry's development of the gyrocompass, originally invented by Herman Anschütz-Kaempfe in 1908. Sperry's first model was installed on US battleship Delaware in 1911.

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Gyrocompass - Herman Anschütz-Kaempfe - 1908 - US - Battleship - Delaware - 1911

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The companies eventually evolved into the Sperry Corporation.

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