In September 1986, Burroughs Corporation merged with Sperry Corporation to form Unisys.

CBI's Burroughs Corporation Records includes over 100, 000 photographs depicting the entire visual history of Burroughs from its origin as the American Arithmometer Corporation in 1886 to its merger with the Sperry Corporation to form the Unisys Corporation in 1986.

The six computer manufacturers were Burroughs Corporation, IBM, Minneapolis-Honeywell ( Honeywell Labs ), RCA, Sperry Rand, and Sylvania Electric Products.

* 1983 — Sperry Corporation Martyn Richard Jones defines the Sperry Information Center approach, which while not being a true DW in the Inmon sense, did contain many of the characteristics of DW structures and process as defined previously by Inmon, and later by Devlin.

Shrinking demand and tough competition started a shakeout in the market in the early 1970s — RCA sold out to UNIVAC and GE also left ; in the 1980s Honeywell was bought out by Bull ; UNIVAC became a division of Sperry, which later merged with Burroughs to form Unisys Corporation in 1986.

RCA was one of several major computer companies ( see also: Computing ) that also included IBM, Digital Equipment Corporation, Burroughs, Control Data Corporation, General Electric, Honeywell, NCR and Sperry Rand through most of the 1960s.

He was a founder of the American Arithmometer Company ( 1886 ), which later became the Burroughs Adding Machine Company ( 1904 ), then the Burroughs Corporation ( 1953 ) and in 1986, merged with Sperry Corporation to form Unisys.

Rand soon merged with Sperry Corporation to become Sperry Rand.

However, in 1955 Remington merged with Sperry Corporation to become Sperry Rand.

* Sperry Rand Corporation ( 1957 ) Introducing a New Language for Automatic Programming: Univac Flow-Matic

Most of the underwriters throughout the show's tenure included: Martin Marietta, Lockheed ( soon to merge long after stopping their share of funding ), Prudential Securities ( and its precursor, Prudential-Bache Securities ), Primerica Financial Services, Hilton Hotels Corporation ( and its subsidiary, Conrad International Hotels ), Sperry Corporation, CSX, Enron Corporation, Enron Foundation, Hanson Trust, Unisys, Travelers Insurance, Ameritech ( before the big switch to SBC, which merged AT & T ), MFS Investment Management, Oppenheimer Funds, A. G. Edwards, The Kaufmann Fund, Deloitte and Touche, The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and all local PBS affiliates and their viewers / contributors.

They were also known as the CEMCorp ICON, Burroughs ICON, and finally Unisys ICON when Burroughs and Sperry Corporation merged to form Unisys in 1986.

National Semiconductor was founded in Danbury, Connecticut by Dr. Bernard J Rothlein on May 27, 1959, when he and seven colleagues had left their employment at the semiconductor division of Sperry Rand Corporation.

In 1986, after the success of a second hostile takeover bid engineered by Burroughs ' CEO and former U. S. Secretary of the Treasury, Michael Blumenthal, Sperry Corporation merged with Burroughs Corporation to become Unisys.

* USS Charles S. Sperry ( DD-697 ), a former US Navy destroyer

According to former executive producer and Westwood co-founder Brett W. Sperry: " Command & Conquer was the net result of the Dune II wish list.

While BTT consisted of top fighters such as, Ricardo Arona, former UFC Middleweight Championship holder Murilo Bustamante, The Nogueira Brothers, Vitor Belfort, Allan Goes, Mario Sperry, and former WEC Middleweight Champion Paulo Filho.

The company was founded in 1886 as the American Arithmometer Company and after the 1986 merger with Sperry Univac was renamed as Unisys.

* August 20 – Roger Wolcott Sperry, American neurobiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( d. 1994 )

* September 3 – Charles Stillman Sperry, American admiral ( d. 1911 )

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.

Sperry Corporation was a major American equipment and electronics company whose existence spanned more than seven decades of the twentieth century.

* Sperry Rand, American equipment and electronics company

Rocketdyne Division of North American Aviation Company provided the rocket engines ; Ford Instrument Company, division of Sperry Rand Corporation, produced the guidance and control systems ; and Reynolds Metals Company fabricated fuselage assemblies as subcontractors to Chrysler.

The American innovation of the manned, ventrally-mounted Sperry ball turret on the B-17 and B-24 bombers was a virtually self-contained defensive weapon system that rotated a full 360 degrees horizontally with a 90-degree elevation, and its pair of M2 Browning machine guns had an effective range of one thousand yards.

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.

* Armstrong Sperry ( 1897 – 1976 ), American author and illustrator

* Brett Sperry ( contemporary ), American video game designer

* Elmer Ambrose Sperry ( 1860 – 1930 ), American inventor and entrepreneur, founder of Sperry Gyroscope Company

* Joseph Evans Sperry ( 1854 – 1930 ), American architect

* Roger Wolcott Sperry ( 1913 – 1994 ), American neurobiologist and Nobel laureate

* Thomas Sperry ( c. 1864 – 1913 ), American businessman and co-founder of S & H Green Stamps

* The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry, an American film released in 2009

Crossfield received the Lawrence Sperry Award ( 1954 ), Octave Chanute Award ( 1954 ), Iven C. Kincheloe Award ( 1960 ), American Rocket Society ( ARS ) Astronautics Award ( 1960 ), Harmon International Trophy ( 1961 at the White House by President John F. Kennedy ), Collier Trophy ( 1961 at the White House by President Kennedy in 1962 ), NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal ( 1993 ), and was named Honorary Fellow by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics ( AIAA ) ( 1999 ).

* Elmer Ambrose Sperry ( 1860 – 1930 ), prolific American inventor and entrepreneur

The Sperry section of Litton Marine Systems, based in Charlottesville, Virginia, was already producing its own line of marine radars, the Rascar, at the time of the acquisition but this was replaced by the BridgeMaster E. The Rascar had been the American-made radar of choice in the American Navy and Coast Guard but eventually the BridgeMaster E made inroads there as well.

Groves went on to become a vice president at Sperry Rand, an equipment and electronics firm.

In 1903, a disastrous fire at the D. R. Sperry factory, located on the island, proved that this equipment was inadequate.

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.

The company made advanced aircraft navigation equipment for the market, including the Sperry Gyroscope and the Sperry Radio Direction Finder.

In the 1970s, Sperry Corporation was an old-school conglomerate headquartered in the Sperry Rand Building at 1290 Avenue of Americas in Manhattan, selling typewriters ( Sperry Remington ), office equipment, electronic digital computers for business and the military ( Sperry Univac ), farm equipment ( Sperry New Holland ), avionics ( e. g. gyroscopes, radars, Air Route Traffic Control equipment ) ( Sperry Vickers / Sperry Flight Systems ), and consumer products ( electric razors ) ( Sperry Remington.