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* Elmer Ambrose Sperry ( 1860 – 1930 ), prolific American inventor and entrepreneur
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In the United States, Elmer Ambrose Sperry produced a workable gyrocompass system ( 1908: patent # 1, 242, 065 ), and founded the Sperry Gyroscope Company.
* Elmer Ambrose Sperry, Prolific Inventor who invented gyroscopic compass and held over 400 patents.
In 1915, Elmer Ambrose Sperry began manufacturing his invention of a high-intensity carbon arc searchlight.
* Elmer Ambrose Sperry ( 1860 – 1930 ), inventor of gyroscope and founder of Sperry Rail Service, the first internal rail flaw detection company.
The company was founded in 1910 as the Sperry Gyroscope Company by Elmer Ambrose Sperry to manufacture navigation equipment, chiefly his own inventions – the marine gyrostabilizer and the gyrocompass at 40 Flatbush Avenue Extension in Downtown Brooklyn.
Elmer Ambrose Sperry ( October 12, 1860 – June 16, 1930 ) was an American inventor and entrepreneur, most famous as co-inventor, with Herman Anschütz-Kaempfe of the gyrocompass.
* Elmer Ambrose Sperry ( 1860 – 1930 ), American inventor and entrepreneur, founder of Sperry Gyroscope Company
Invented by Elmer Ambrose Sperry in the early 1900s, the detector car initially used induction to detect cracks within the steel.
* June 13-The first tests are performed with the first rail detector car, invented by Elmer Ambrose Sperry, in Beacon, New York.
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The American Elmer Sperry followed with his own design later that year, and other nations soon realized the military importance of the invention — in an age in which naval prowess was the most significant measure of military power — and created their own gyroscope industries.
* Elmer A. Sperry case file at the Franklin Institute contains records concerning his 1914 Franklin Award for the gyroscopic compass
* 1927-1928 Magnetic induction system to detect flaws in railroad track developed by Dr. Elmer Sperry and H. C. Drake.
SAE member Elmer Sperry created the term " automotive " from Greek autos ( self ), and Latin motivus ( of motion ) origins to represent any form of self powered vehicle.
Lawrence Sperry ( the son of famous inventor Elmer Sperry ) demonstrated it two years later in 1914 at an aviation safety contest held in Paris.
Elmer Sperry Jr., the son of Lawrence Sperry, and Capt Shiras continued work after the war on the auto-pilot developed by Elmer Sperry's father, and in 1930 test a more compact and reliable auto-pilot which kept a US Army Air Corps aircraft on a true heading and altitude for three hours, that was probably of the type used by Wiley Post to fly alone around the world in less than eight days in 1933.
* Thomas P. Hughes, Elmer Sperry: Inventor and Engineer ( Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1971 ).
* Elmer A. Sperry case file at the Franklin Institute contains records concerning his 1914 Franklin Award for the gyroscopic compass
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* Eleven Major League Baseball players were born in Poughkeepsie: Frank Bahret ( 1858 ), Frank Beck ( 1860 ), Bill Daley ( 1868 ), Buttons Briggs ( 1875 ), Elmer Steele ( 1886 ), Mickey McDermott ( 1929 ), Fred Lasher ( 1941 ), Tommy Boggs ( 1955 ), Ricky Horton ( 1959 ), Frank Cimorelli ( 1968 ), Jeff Pierce ( 1969 ), and Dan Gallagher ( 1982 ).
Charles Elmer Sawyer, also known as Dr. C. E. Sawyer ( January 24, 1860 – September 23, 1924 ), was a homeopathic physician who is blamed for giving a false diagnosis of U. S. President Warren G. Harding that led to Harding's premature death.
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* 1909 – Elmer L. Andersen, American businessman and politician, 30th Governor of Minnesota ( d. 2004 )
* 1948 – John Ford, English singer-songwriter and musician ( Strawbs, The Monks, and Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera )
Joseph Elmer Yoakum ( February 22, 1889 – December 25, 1972 ) was a self-taught landscape artist of African-American and Native American descent, who drew landscapes in a highly individual style.
Voight was born in Yonkers, New York, the son of Barbara ( née Kamp ; 1910 – 1995 ) and Elmer Voight ( né Voytka ; 1909 – 1973 ), a professional golfer.
* May 20 – Elmer Fowler Stone, American aviator, the first United States Coast Guard aviator ( b. 1887 )
* March 2 – Cartoon character Elmer Fudd makes his debut in the animated short Elmer's Candid Camera.
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