Elmer Ambrose Sperry

Business Positions

Sperry Development Company, Inc.

• Founder ('29)

Sperry Gyroscope Company Division

• founder (Apr 14 '10)

Sperry Electric Company Electric dynamos and arc lamps

• Founder ('80)

Board Memberships

Naval Consulting Board

• Board Member ('15→'30)

Holdings

Sperry Gyroscope Company Division

• Founder and Owner (Apr 14 '10→Jan '29)

Memberships

Franklin Institute Philadelphia Science Museum

• Member (?→'30)

American Institute of Electrical Engineers

• charter member ('84→?)

Japan Society Premier US institution for presentation of Japanese art and culture

• Member (?→Jun '30)

American Petroleum Institute Oil and natural gas industry association

• Member (?→'30)

Family

Richard Sperry Farmer

• ancestor

Elmer Sperry Jr

• son ('94→?)

Stephen Decatur Sperry

• father (Oct 12 '60→?)

Zula A Goodman

• wife ('87→'29)

Edward Goodman Sperry

• son

Schools

Cornell University Mixed Public/Private University in Ithaca, NY

• Undergraduate ('79→'80)

Social

H C Snow Automobile engineer

• collaborator (past)

Herbert Hoover 31st President of the United States (1929–1933)

• friend (?→'30)