He also has the lead role in Christiano's film The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry.

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.

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.

In 1989, Sperry also received the National Medal of Science.

In addition to his contribution in establishing the lateralized function of the brain, Sperry is also noted for his chemo affinity theory, which has been not only influential in formation of testable hypotheses in how precise neuronal wiring diagram is established in the brain, but the hypothesis itself has been verified by numerous experiments.

The experiments conducted by Sperry focused on four major ideas which were also called “ turnarounds ” that were equipotentiality, split brain studies, nerve regeneration and plasticity, and psychology of the consciousness.

Similar systems were adopted in other countries and for example the later Sperry device, designated M3A3 in the US was also used by Britain as the Predictor AA No 2.

Sperry was also a founding member of the US Naval Consulting Board, 1915.

Sperry Lighthouse ( 1899 – 1933 ) also served the harbor.

Patent agents and patent attorneys may also provide patentability opinions, as noted by the U. S. Supreme Court in Sperry v. Florida.

Until 1994 the base also operated a Type 80 radar and a Sperry TPS-34 amongst others.

Sperry has also competed in mixed martial arts, with wins over such fighters as Vernon White and Igor Vovchanchyn.

Sperry also designed several buildings at Johns Hopkins University and one building at West Virginia University.

In May 2012, it was announced Wolverine Worldwide ( maker of such brands as Merrell ) would acquire Saucony's parent company, Collective Brands ', which also includes Sperry Top-Sider & Stride Rite among others.

Gene Amdahl also attempted to develop WSI as a method of making a supercomputer, starting Trilogy Systems in 1980 and garnering investments from Groupe Bull, Sperry Rand and Digital Equipment Corporation, who ( along with others ) provided an estimated $ 230 million in financing.

The United States District Court for the District of Minnesota released its judgement on October 19, 1973, finding in Honeywell v. Sperry Rand that the ENIAC patent was a derivative of John Atanasoff's invention.

Today automated flight control is common to reduce pilot error and workload at key times like landing or takeoff. Autopilot was first invented by Lawrence Sperry during World War II to fly bomber planes steady enough to hit precision targets from 25, 000 feet.

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

The ABC was largely forgotten until it became the focus of the lawsuit Honeywell v. Sperry Rand, the ruling of which invalidated the ENIAC patent ( and several others ) as, among many reasons, having been anticipated by Atanasoff's work.

The company was sold in 1975 to Sperry UNIVAC, while Saab retained its flight computer development.

The first boat shoe was invented in 1935 by Paul Sperry.

Traducianism was initially developed by Tertullian and arguably propagated by Augustine of Hippo, and has been endorsed by Gregory of Nyssa, Anastasius Sinaita, Hilary of Poitiers, Ambrose of Milan, many in the early Catholic Church ), various Lutheran churches, and some modern theologians such as Augustus H. Strong ( Baptist ), W. G. T. Shedd and Gordon Clark ( Presbyterian ), Lewis Sperry Chafer, Millard Erickson, Norman L. Geisler, Robert Culver, and Robert L. Reymond.

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.

It was founded by Brett Sperry and Louis Castle in 1985 as Westwood Associates and was renamed Westwood Studios when it merged with Virgin Interactive in 1992.

In 1958 the Army felt that existing knowledge was sufficient for work on a guided missile with a HEAT warhead to begin, and in June 1959 Sperry and Ford Aeronutronic were asked for designs to fill the shorter range role.

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.

Seymour Cray was likewise chosen to be the chief designer, but he was still in the process of completing an early version of the 1103-based Naval Tactical Data System ( NTDS ), and he did not leave Sperry to join CDC until it was complete.

The final Civil Aeronautics Board report noted that Peterson had taken his instrument training on airplanes equipped with an artificial horizon attitude indicator and not the far-less-common Sperry Attitude Gyro the Bonanza was equipped with ( it was further discovered that Peterson had failed his instrument checkride shortly before the incident ).

In 1975, the D23 system was seriously delayed and the solution was a joint company with Sperry UNIVAC.

For a variety of reasons ( including Mauchly's June 1941 examination of the Atanasoff – Berry Computer, prototyped in 1939 by John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry ), US patent 3, 120, 606 for ENIAC, granted in 1964, was voided by the 1973 decision of the landmark federal court case Honeywell v. Sperry Rand, putting the invention of the electronic digital computer in the public domain and providing legal recognition to Atanasoff as the inventor of the first electronic digital computer.

The Sperry PC / IT, an IBM PC AT clone, was advertised as capable of supporting eight simultaneous dumb terminal users under this version.

Atansoff invented the first digital computer in the world during the 1930s in the Iowa State College, but it took a lengthy court battle for achieving legal patent to 1973 when the case of Honeywell v. Sperry Rand was solved and the verdict named Atansoff with the title the inventor of the computer, the decision was never appealed, thus giving him the legal right to be called as such in the United States.

Castle co-founded Westwood Studios ( the creator of the popular Command & Conquer real-time strategy video game series ) with Brett Sperry in 1985.

In 1947 the Navy contracted Sperry to build a beam riding version of a standard HVAR, the standard unguided aerial rocket, under Project Hotshot.

Life magazine hired an illustrator from Sperry Rand to make drawings of the concepts Vannevar Bush had presented a few months earlier in The Atlantic Monthly magazine under the title As We May Think.

It was the first 1100 series machine introduced under the Sperry Corporation name.

Sperry did this under contract to Sun Oil ( which was involved in a lawsuit as described above ), and a spin-off company " Sperry Sun " was formed, which brand continues to this day, absorbed into Halliburton.

Other versions of Runoff were developed for various computer systems including Digital Equipment Corporation's PDP-11 minicomputer systems running RT-11, RSTS / E, RSX on Digital's PDP-10 and for OpenVMS on VAX minicomputers, as well as Sperry Unisys Univac 90 / 60 mainframe using the EDT text editor under the VS / 9 operating system.

In December 1996 the US corporation Litton Industries bought Racal-Decca Marine, as well as Sperry Marine and C. Plath, in order to strengthen their marine electronics position under the Litton Marine Systems name.

Both Decca and Sperry radar divisions were under heavy competitive pressure from Gold Star and Furuno, though remained the radars of choice on large ocean-going vessels.

In 1964, he received a Ph. D. in psychobiology from the California Institute of Technology, where he worked under the guidance of Roger Sperry, with primary responsibility for initiating human split-brain research.