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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, inventor
* 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.
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* Elmer Ambrose Sperry ( 1860 1930 ), American inventor and entrepreneur, founder of Sperry Gyroscope Company
** Sperry Gyroscope Company ( 1910 1933 ), founded by Elmer Ambrose Sperry
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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.
was named for him, as was the annual Elmer A. Sperry Award for Advancing the Art of Transportation.
* Thomas P. Hughes, Elmer Sperry: Inventor and Engineer ( Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1971 ).
* Obituary, New York Times, Elmer Sperry Dies ; Famous Inventor, June 17, 1930
* 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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* 1944 Elmer Gedeon, American baseball player and pilot ( b. 1917 )
* 1935 Elmer Vasko, Canadian ice hockey player ( d. 1998 )
* 1977 Elmer Symons, South African motorcycle racer ( d. 2007 )
* 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 )
* 1876 Elmer Flick, American baseball player ( d. 1971 )
* 1918 Elmer Lach, Canadian ice hockey player
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.
* 1899 Elmer Keith, American firearms developer ( d. 1984 )
* January 22 Elmer Lach, Canadian ice hockey player
* October 15 Elmer Clifton, American actor and director ( b. 1890 )
* November 2 Burt Lancaster, American actor ( Elmer Gantry ) ( d. 1994 )
* July 19 Elmer Valo, Slovak Major League Baseball player ( b. 1921 )
* May 20 Elmer Fowler Stone, American aviator, the first United States Coast Guard aviator ( b. 1887 )
* March 9 Paul Elmer More, American critic and essayist ( b. 1864 )
* March 2 Cartoon character Elmer Fudd makes his debut in the animated short Elmer's Candid Camera.
* March 5 Elmer Valo, Czech Major League Baseball player ( died 1998 )
* January 9 Elmer Flick, American baseball player ( b. 1876 )
* December 12 Paul Elmer More, American critic and essayist ( d. 1937 )
* April 4 Elmer Bernstein, American composer ( d. 2004 )
* August 18 Elmer Bernstein, American composer ( b. 1922 )
* 1929: Street Scene Elmer Rice
* Elmer Holmes Bobst Library at New York University, New York City, New York ( 1967 1973 )

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