American equipment and electronics company (1910–1986)
For the shoe company, see Sperry Top-Sider.
Sperry Corporation
Industry
Aerospace
Defense
Electronics
Information Technology
Founded
1910; 114 years ago (1910) in Downtown Brooklyn
Founder
Elmer Ambrose Sperry
Defunct
September 16, 1986 (1986-09-16)
Fate
Merged with Burroughs Corporation
Successor
Unisys
Headquarters
Lake Success, New York
,
United States
Key people
Thomas A. Morgan[1]
Harry Franklin Vickers
Hannibal Ford
James E. Webb
Parent
North American Aviation (1929–1933)
Subsidiaries
Aircraft Radio Corporation
Factory building, BrooklynM2 gun director 1932 in production
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 hostile takeover bid engineered by Burroughs Corporation, which merged the combined operation under the new name Unisys. Some of Sperry's former divisions became part of Honeywell, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon Technologies, and Northrop Grumman.
The company is best known as the developer of the artificial horizon and a wide variety of other gyroscope-based aviation instruments like autopilots, bombsights, analog ballistics computers and gyro gunsights. In the post-WWII era the company branched out into electronics, both aviation-related, and later, computers.
The company was founded by Elmer Ambrose Sperry.
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