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Elmer Sperry

Inventor and Engineer

By: Thomas Parker Hughes

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Paperback | 14 December 1993

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368 Pages

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22+

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27.94 x 20.96 x 1.96

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Awarded the Dexter Prize of the Society for the History of Technology

A major Amercan inventor who obtained more than 350 patents during his lifetime, Elmer Sperry contributed greatly to the momentous technological changes that occured between 1880 and 1930. Best known for the Sperry gyrocompass and automatic pilot, his inventions included arc-light systems, mining machinery, electric automobiles and streetcars, and electrochemical processess. Characteristic of his various inventions were feedback controls that have made automation a fact of life. Richly illustrated with 149 photographs and line drawings, the first full-length biography now returns to print in a paperback edition.

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""Superb... In this careful study of a single inventor, Hughes has done more to demonstrate the 'questionable' nature of traditional accounts of invention than all of the theoretical arguments of the past few years combined.""

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Preface
Introduction
The Cultivation of an Inventor	p. 1
Chicago: The Maturing of an Inventor	p. 27
The Inventor-Entrepreneur	p. 63
The Gyrostabilizer: A Very Powerful Fulcrum in Space	p. 103
Harnessing the Rotation of the Earth: The Gyrocompass	p. 129
Organized Experimentation and Development: The Sperry Gyroscope Company	p. 153
A Beast of Burden Obsessed with Motion: Stabilizing the Airplane	p. 173
Brainmill for the Military	p. 201
The Assumption of Leadership: The Naval Consulting Board and the Aerial Torpedo	p. 243
Fulfillment and Legacy	p. 275
Appendix A: Elmer Sperry Patent Applications Maturing as Patents	p. 325
Appendix B: Engineering and Scientific Papers of Elmer Sperry	p. 341
Index	p. 343
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Elmer Sperry

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