Elmer Ambrose Sperry

Elmer Ambrose Sperry ( born October 12, 1860 in Cortland, New York, † June 16, 1930 in Brooklyn, New York ) was an American inventor and businessman.

Life

In 1880 he founded the Sperry Electric Company in Chicago, which is engaged in the manufacture of generators and arc lamps.

From 1898 to 1901 he turned electric automobiles in America under the brand name Sperry Cleveland.

Elmer Sperry founded in 1910, the Sperry Corporation, and is next to Hermann Anschütz - fights as one of the developers of the first usable gyros. His gyro compass was first used in 1911 by the U.S. Navy. In total, he received 360 patents on a wide technical field.

His son Lawrence Sperry also dealt with the Gyro technology.

• Americans
• Inventor
• Entrepreneurs (19th Century )
• Entrepreneur ( 20th century)
• Contractor (electrical engineering)
• Born in 1860
• Died in 1930
• Man