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Corporation</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image ib-company-logo logo"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Sperry_Corporation_logo.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Sperry_Corporation_logo.svg/220px-Sperry_Corporation_logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="49" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Sperry_Corporation_logo.svg/330px-Sperry_Corporation_logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Sperry_Corporation_logo.svg/440px-Sperry_Corporation_logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="253" data-file-height="56" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Industry</th><td class="infobox-data category"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Aerospace_manufacturer" title="Aerospace manufacturer">Aerospace</a></span></li><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Defense_(military)" class="mw-redirect" title="Defense (military)">Defense</a></span></li><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Electronics" title="Electronics">Electronics</a></span></li><li><span class="nowrap">Information Technology</span></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">1910<span class="noprint">; 114 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1910</span>)</span> in <a href="/wiki/Downtown_Brooklyn" title="Downtown Brooklyn">Downtown Brooklyn</a>, New York City, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founder</th><td class="infobox-data agent"><a href="/wiki/Elmer_Ambrose_Sperry" title="Elmer Ambrose Sperry">Elmer Ambrose Sperry</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Defunct</th><td class="infobox-data">September 16, 1986<span style="display:none"> (<span class="dtend itvend">1986-09-16</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Fate</th><td class="infobox-data">Merged with <a href="/wiki/Burroughs_Corporation" title="Burroughs Corporation">Burroughs Corporation</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Successor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Unisys" title="Unisys">Unisys</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data adr"><div class="ib-company-locality locality"><a href="/wiki/Lake_Success,_New_York" title="Lake Success, New York">Lake Success, New York</a></div>, <div class="ib-company-country country-name">U.S</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Key people</div></th><td class="infobox-data agent"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>Thomas A. Morgan<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li><li><a href="/wiki/Harry_Franklin_Vickers" title="Harry Franklin Vickers">Harry Franklin Vickers</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Hannibal_Ford" title="Hannibal Ford">Hannibal Ford</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/James_E._Webb" title="James E. Webb">James E. Webb</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Parent_company" class="mw-redirect" title="Parent company">Parent</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/North_American_Aviation" title="North American Aviation">North American Aviation</a><br />(1929–1933)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Subsidiary" title="Subsidiary">Subsidiaries</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Aircraft_Radio_Corporation" title="Aircraft Radio Corporation">Aircraft Radio Corporation</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sperry_Gyro_FBE_day_jeh.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Sperry_Gyro_FBE_day_jeh.JPG/220px-Sperry_Gyro_FBE_day_jeh.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Sperry_Gyro_FBE_day_jeh.JPG/330px-Sperry_Gyro_FBE_day_jeh.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Sperry_Gyro_FBE_day_jeh.JPG/440px-Sperry_Gyro_FBE_day_jeh.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2407" data-file-height="1974" /></a><figcaption>Factory building, Brooklyn</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sperry_M2_director.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Sperry_M2_director.jpg/220px-Sperry_M2_director.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Sperry_M2_director.jpg/330px-Sperry_M2_director.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Sperry_M2_director.jpg/440px-Sperry_M2_director.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1802" data-file-height="1206" /></a><figcaption>M2 gun director 1932 in production</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Sperry Corporation</b> was a major American equipment and <a href="/wiki/Electronics" title="Electronics">electronics</a> company whose existence spanned more than seven decades of the 20th century. Sperry ceased to exist in 1986 following a prolonged <a href="/wiki/Takeover" title="Takeover">hostile takeover</a> bid engineered by <a href="/wiki/Burroughs_Corporation" title="Burroughs Corporation">Burroughs Corporation</a>, which merged the combined operation under the new name <a href="/wiki/Unisys" title="Unisys">Unisys</a>. Some of Sperry's former divisions became part of <a href="/wiki/Honeywell" title="Honeywell">Honeywell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lockheed_Martin" title="Lockheed Martin">Lockheed Martin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Raytheon_Technologies" class="mw-redirect" title="Raytheon Technologies">Raytheon Technologies</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Northrop_Grumman" title="Northrop Grumman">Northrop Grumman</a>. </p><p>The company is best known as the developer of the <a href="/wiki/Artificial_horizon" class="mw-redirect" title="Artificial horizon">artificial horizon</a> and a wide variety of other <a href="/wiki/Gyroscope" title="Gyroscope">gyroscope</a>-based aviation instruments like <a href="/wiki/Autopilot" title="Autopilot">autopilots</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bombsight" title="Bombsight">bombsights</a>, <a href="/wiki/Director_(military)" title="Director (military)">analog ballistics computers</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gyro_gunsight" title="Gyro gunsight">gyro gunsights</a>. In the post-WWII era the company branched out into electronics, both aviation-related, and later, computers. </p><p>The company was founded by <a href="/wiki/Elmer_Ambrose_Sperry" title="Elmer Ambrose Sperry">Elmer Ambrose Sperry</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sperry_Corporation&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_history">Early history</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sperry_Corporation&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sperry_Horizon.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Sperry_Horizon.jpg/220px-Sperry_Horizon.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="219" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Sperry_Horizon.jpg/330px-Sperry_Horizon.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Sperry_Horizon.jpg/440px-Sperry_Horizon.jpg 2x" data-file-width="544" data-file-height="541" /></a><figcaption><i>The Sperry Horizon</i>, Sperry Gyroscope Co. Brooklyn N.Y.</figcaption></figure> <p>The company was incorporated on April 14 1910<sup id="cite_ref-smithsonian_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-smithsonian-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> by Elmer Ambrose Sperry as the <b>Sperry Gyroscope Company</b>, to manufacture navigation equipment—chiefly his own inventions: the marine <a href="/wiki/Gyrostabilizer" class="mw-redirect" title="Gyrostabilizer">gyrostabilizer</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Gyrocompass" title="Gyrocompass">gyrocompass</a>—at 40 Flatbush Avenue Extension in <a href="/wiki/Downtown_Brooklyn" title="Downtown Brooklyn">Downtown Brooklyn</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a> the company diversified into aircraft components including <a href="/wiki/Bomb_sight" class="mw-redirect" title="Bomb sight">bomb sights</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fire_control_system" class="mw-redirect" title="Fire control system">fire control systems</a>. In their early decades, Sperry Gyroscope and related companies were concentrated on <a href="/wiki/Long_Island" title="Long Island">Long Island</a>, New York, especially in <a href="/wiki/Nassau_County,_New_York" title="Nassau County, New York">Nassau County</a>. Over the years, it diversified to other locations. </p><p>In 1918, <a href="/wiki/Lawrence_Sperry" title="Lawrence Sperry">Lawrence Sperry</a> split from his father to compete over aero-instruments with the <i>Lawrence Sperry Aircraft Company</i>, including the new <a href="/wiki/Autopilot" title="Autopilot">automatic pilot</a>. After the death of Lawrence on December 13, 1923, the two firms were brought together in 1924. Then in January 1929 it was acquired by <a href="/wiki/North_American_Aviation" title="North American Aviation">North American Aviation</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who reincorporated it in New York as the <i>Sperry Gyroscope Company, Inc</i>. The company once again became independent in 1933 when it was spun-off as a subsidiary of the newly formed <b>Sperry Corporation</b>.<sup id="cite_ref-smithsonian_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-smithsonian-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The new corporation was a holding company for a number of smaller entities such as the original Sperry Gyroscope, <i>Ford Instrument Company</i>, <i>Intercontinental Aviation, Inc.</i>, and others. The company made advanced aircraft navigation equipment for the market, including the Sperry Gyroscope and the Sperry Radio Direction Finder. It also moved into the hydraulics industry when it acquired Vickers, Inc. in 1937.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sperry supported the work of a group of <a href="/wiki/Stanford_University" title="Stanford University">Stanford University</a> inventors, led by <a href="/wiki/Russell_and_Sigurd_Varian" title="Russell and Sigurd Varian">Russell and Sigurd Varian</a>, who had invented the <a href="/wiki/Klystron" title="Klystron">klystron</a>, and incorporated this technology and related inventions into their products.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The company prospered during <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> as military demand skyrocketed, ranking 19th among US corporations in the value of wartime production contracts.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It specialized in high technology devices such as <a href="/wiki/Analog_computer" title="Analog computer">analog computer</a>–controlled bomb sights, <a href="/wiki/Airborne_radar" class="mw-redirect" title="Airborne radar">airborne radar</a> systems, and automated take-off and landing systems. Sperry also was the creator of the <a href="/wiki/Ball_Turret" class="mw-redirect" title="Ball Turret">Ball Turret</a> Gun mounted under the <a href="/wiki/Boeing_B-17_Flying_Fortress" title="Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress">Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Consolidated_B-24_Liberator" title="Consolidated B-24 Liberator">Consolidated B-24 Liberator</a>, as commemorated by the film <i><a href="/wiki/Memphis_Belle_(film)" title="Memphis Belle (film)">Memphis Belle</a></i> and the poem <i><a href="/wiki/The_Death_of_the_Ball_Turret_Gunner" title="The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner">The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner</a></i>. </p><p>In 1944, Sperry sold the Brooklyn factory at 40 Flatbush Avenue Extension to the Howard clothing manufacturing company, which already had a smaller nearby factory.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Postwar, Sperry expanded its interests in electronics and computing, producing the company's first digital computer, <a href="/wiki/SPEEDAC" title="SPEEDAC">SPEEDAC</a>, in 1953. </p><p>During the 1950s, a large part of Sperry Gyroscope moved to <a href="/wiki/Phoenix,_Arizona" title="Phoenix, Arizona">Phoenix</a>, Arizona and soon became the <a href="/wiki/Sperry_Flight_Systems" class="mw-redirect" title="Sperry Flight Systems">Sperry Flight Systems</a> Company. This was to preserve parts of this defense company in the event of a <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_war" class="mw-redirect" title="Nuclear war">nuclear war</a>. The Gyroscope division remained headquartered in New York—in its massive <a href="/wiki/Lake_Success,_New_York" title="Lake Success, New York">Lake Success</a>, Long Island, plant (which also served as the temporary <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_headquarters" class="mw-redirect" title="United Nations headquarters">United Nations headquarters</a> from 1946 to 1952)—into the 1980s. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sperry_Rand">Sperry Rand</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sperry_Corporation&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Sperry Rand"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sperry_Rand_logo.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Sperry_Rand_logo.svg/170px-Sperry_Rand_logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="170" height="31" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Sperry_Rand_logo.svg/255px-Sperry_Rand_logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Sperry_Rand_logo.svg/340px-Sperry_Rand_logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="3154" data-file-height="576" /></a><figcaption>Logo of Sperry Rand</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1955, Sperry acquired <a href="/wiki/Remington_Rand" title="Remington Rand">Remington Rand</a> and renamed itself <b>Sperry Rand</b>. Acquiring then- <a href="/wiki/Eckert%E2%80%93Mauchly_Computer_Corporation" title="Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation">Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation</a> and <a href="/wiki/Engineering_Research_Associates" title="Engineering Research Associates">Engineering Research Associates</a> along with Remington Rand, the company developed the successful <a href="/wiki/List_of_UNIVAC_products" title="List of UNIVAC products">UNIVAC</a> computer series and signed a valuable cross-licensing deal with <a href="/wiki/IBM" title="IBM">IBM</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The company remained a major military contractor. From 1967 to 1973 the corporation was involved in an acrimonious <a href="/wiki/Antitrust" class="mw-redirect" title="Antitrust">antitrust</a> lawsuit with <a href="/wiki/Honeywell" title="Honeywell">Honeywell</a>, Inc. (see <i><a href="/wiki/Honeywell_v._Sperry_Rand" class="mw-redirect" title="Honeywell v. Sperry Rand">Honeywell v. Sperry Rand</a></i>). </p><p>In 1961, Sperry Rand was ranked 34th on the <a href="/wiki/Fortune_500" title="Fortune 500">Fortune 500</a> list of largest companies in the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1977, Sperry Rand purchased <a href="/wiki/Varian_Data_Machines" title="Varian Data Machines">Varian Data Machines</a> so as to enter the <a href="/wiki/Minicomputer" title="Minicomputer">minicomputer</a> market. Varian would be renamed as the Sperry UNIVAC Minicomputer Operation, operating as part of the Sperry UNIVAC division.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1978, Sperry Rand decided to concentrate on its computing interests, and sold a number of divisions including Remington Rand Systems, Remington Rand Machines, Ford Instrument Company and <a href="/wiki/Harry_Franklin_Vickers" title="Harry Franklin Vickers">Sperry Vickers</a>. The company dropped "Rand" from its title and reverted to <b>Sperry Corporation</b>. </p><p>At about the same time as the Remington Rand acquisition, Sperry Gyroscope decided to open a facility that would almost exclusively produce its marine instruments. After considerable searching and evaluation, a plant was built in <a href="/wiki/Charlottesville,_Virginia" title="Charlottesville, Virginia">Charlottesville, Virginia</a>, and in 1956, Sperry Piedmont Division began producing marine navigation products. It was later renamed <a href="/w/index.php?title=Sperry_Marine&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sperry Marine (page does not exist)">Sperry Marine</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sperry_Remington_typewriter_in_kringloper_thrift_store_in_Roosendaal,_NL,_upper_floor_1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Sperry_Remington_typewriter_in_kringloper_thrift_store_in_Roosendaal%2C_NL%2C_upper_floor_1.jpg/220px-Sperry_Remington_typewriter_in_kringloper_thrift_store_in_Roosendaal%2C_NL%2C_upper_floor_1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="169" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Sperry_Remington_typewriter_in_kringloper_thrift_store_in_Roosendaal%2C_NL%2C_upper_floor_1.jpg/330px-Sperry_Remington_typewriter_in_kringloper_thrift_store_in_Roosendaal%2C_NL%2C_upper_floor_1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Sperry_Remington_typewriter_in_kringloper_thrift_store_in_Roosendaal%2C_NL%2C_upper_floor_1.jpg/440px-Sperry_Remington_typewriter_in_kringloper_thrift_store_in_Roosendaal%2C_NL%2C_upper_floor_1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2271" data-file-height="1743" /></a><figcaption>Sperry Remington typewriter</figcaption></figure> <p>In the 1970s, Sperry Corporation was a traditional 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); construction and farm equipment (Sperry New Holland); avionics, such as gyroscopes, radars, air route traffic control equipment (Sperry Vickers/Sperry Flight Systems); and consumer products such as electric razors (Sperry Remington). In addition, Sperry Systems Management (headquartered in the original Sperry Gyroscope building in Lake Success) performed work on a number of US government defense contracts. Sperry also managed the operation from 1961 to 1975 of the large <a href="/wiki/Louisiana_Army_Ammunition_Plant" title="Louisiana Army Ammunition Plant">Louisiana Army Ammunition Plant</a> near <a href="/wiki/Minden,_Louisiana" title="Minden, Louisiana">Minden</a>. In January 1972, Sperry took over the <a href="/wiki/RCA_Spectra_70" title="RCA Spectra 70">RCA Spectra 70</a> line of electronic digital computers (architectural cousins to the IBM <a href="/wiki/System/360" class="mw-redirect" title="System/360">System/360</a>). In 1983, Sperry sold Vickers to <a href="/wiki/Libbey_Owens_Ford" class="mw-redirect" title="Libbey Owens Ford">Libbey Owens Ford</a> (later to be renamed TRINOVA Corporation and subsequently Aeroquip-Vickers). At the same time, it acquired the <a href="/wiki/Aircraft_Radio_Corporation" title="Aircraft Radio Corporation">Aircraft Radio Corporation</a> from <a href="/wiki/Cessna" title="Cessna">Cessna</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Burroughs_takeover">Burroughs takeover</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sperry_Corporation&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Burroughs takeover"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On September 16, 1986, after the success of a second <a href="/wiki/Takeover" title="Takeover">hostile takeover</a> bid engineered by <a href="/wiki/Burroughs_Corporation" title="Burroughs Corporation">Burroughs Corporation</a> CEO and former <a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_the_Treasury" title="United States Secretary of the Treasury">U.S. Secretary of the Treasury</a>, <a href="/wiki/W._Michael_Blumenthal" title="W. Michael Blumenthal">Michael Blumenthal</a>, Sperry Corporation merged with Burroughs Corporation.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The newly merged company was renamed <a href="/wiki/Unisys" title="Unisys">Unisys Corporation</a>— a portmanteau of "united", "information", and "systems," while also referencing Sperry's well-known previous UNIVAC computer branding.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The takeover came about even after Sperry used a "<a href="/wiki/Shareholder_rights_plan" title="Shareholder rights plan">poison pill</a>" in the form of a major share price hike to dissuade the hostile bid, the result of which caused Burroughs to borrow much more funding than was anticipated to complete the bid. </p><p>Certain internal divisions of Sperry were sold off after the merger, such as <a href="/w/index.php?title=Sperry_New_Holland&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sperry New Holland (page does not exist)">Sperry New Holland</a> (1986, to <a href="/wiki/Ford_Motor_Company" title="Ford Motor Company">Ford Motor Company</a>, who in 1991 sold the Ford-New Holland line to <a href="/wiki/Fiat" title="Fiat">Fiat</a><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Sperry_Marine&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sperry Marine (page does not exist)">Sperry Marine</a> (to <a href="/wiki/Tenneco" title="Tenneco">Tenneco</a>, in 1987,<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and is currently part of <a href="/wiki/Northrop_Grumman" title="Northrop Grumman">Northrop Grumman</a><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>). Also sold—to <a href="/wiki/Honeywell" title="Honeywell">Honeywell</a>—was <a href="/w/index.php?title=Sperry_Aerospace_Group&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sperry Aerospace Group (page does not exist)">Sperry Aerospace Group</a>, while <a href="/w/index.php?title=Sperry_Defense_Products_Group&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sperry Defense Products Group (page does not exist)">Sperry Defense Products Group</a> was sold to <a href="/wiki/Loral_Corporation" title="Loral Corporation">Loral</a>; those two units whose functions were originally at the heart of the venerable Sperry Gyroscope division.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability"><span title="The material near this tag failed verification of its source citation(s). (December 2022)">failed verification</span></a></i>]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability"><span title="The material near this tag failed verification of its source citation(s). (December 2022)">failed verification</span></a></i>]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability"><span title="The material near this tag failed verification of its source citation(s). (December 2022)">failed verification</span></a></i>]</sup> This group is now part of <a href="/wiki/Lockheed_Martin" title="Lockheed Martin">Lockheed Martin</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="British_Sperry">British Sperry</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sperry_Corporation&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: British Sperry"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Sperry in Britain started with a factory in <a href="/wiki/Pimlico" title="Pimlico">Pimlico</a>, London, in 1913, manufacturing gyroscopic compasses for the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Navy" title="Royal Navy">Royal Navy</a>. It became the Sperry Gyroscope Co Ltd in 1915. In 1923, <a href="/wiki/Lawrence_Sperry" title="Lawrence Sperry">Lawrence Sperry</a> was killed in an air crash near <a href="/wiki/Rye,_East_Sussex" title="Rye, East Sussex">Rye, Sussex</a>. The company subsequently expanded to the <a href="/wiki/Golden_Mile_(Brentford)" title="Golden Mile (Brentford)">Golden Mile</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brentford" title="Brentford">Brentford</a> in 1931, <a href="/wiki/Stonehouse,_Gloucestershire" title="Stonehouse, Gloucestershire">Stonehouse</a>, Gloucestershire<sup id="cite_ref-flight63_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-flight63-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in 1938, and <a href="/wiki/Bracknell" title="Bracknell">Bracknell</a> in 1957.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By 1963, these sites employed some 3,500 people.<sup id="cite_ref-flight63_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-flight63-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Brentford site closed in 1967, with the expansion of Bracknell. Stonehouse closed around 1969. By 1969, the Sperry Gyroscope division of Sperry Rand Corporation employed around 2,500.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The site of the Bracknell factory and development center (sold to <a href="/wiki/British_Aerospace" title="British Aerospace">British Aerospace</a> in 1982) is commemorated by a 4.5-meter aluminum sculpture by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Philip_Bentham&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Philip Bentham (page does not exist)">Philip Bentham</a>, <i>Sperry's New Symbolic Gyroscope</i> (1967).<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1989, the Bracknell site was downsized and work was moved to the Sperry manufacturing site in <a href="/wiki/Plymouth" title="Plymouth">Plymouth</a> by then under the <a href="/wiki/British_Aerospace" title="British Aerospace">British Aerospace</a> brand. State of the art, high technology <a href="/wiki/MEMS" title="MEMS">MEMS</a> gyroscopes (together with other avionics equipment) are still made on the site today, although the company is now owned by <a href="/wiki/United_Technologies_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="United Technologies Corporation">United Technologies Corporation</a> and is part of <a href="/wiki/UTC_Aerospace_Systems" title="UTC Aerospace Systems">UTC Aerospace Systems</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sperry_since_1997">Sperry since 1997</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sperry_Corporation&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Sperry since 1997"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The name Sperry lives on in the company <a href="/wiki/Sperry_Marine_Northrop_Grumman" title="Sperry Marine Northrop Grumman">Sperry Marine</a>, headquartered in <a href="/wiki/New_Malden,_England" class="mw-redirect" title="New Malden, England">New Malden</a>, England. This company, formed in 1997, from three well-known brand names in the marine industry—Sperry Marine, <a href="/wiki/Decca_Radar" title="Decca Radar">Decca</a>, and C. Plath—is now part of <a href="/wiki/Northrop_Grumman" title="Northrop Grumman">Northrop Grumman</a> Corporation. It is a worldwide supplier of navigation, communication, information and automation systems for commercial marine and naval markets. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Products">Products</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sperry_Corporation&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Products"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Aircraft">Aircraft</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sperry_Corporation&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Aircraft"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Model name </th> <th>First flight </th> <th>Number built </th> <th>Type </th></tr> <tr> <td align="left"><a href="/wiki/Hewitt-Sperry_Automatic_Airplane" title="Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane">Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane</a> </td> <td align="center">1917 </td> <td align="center">13 </td> <td align="left">Flying bomb </td></tr> <tr> <td align="left"><a href="/wiki/Sperry_Land_and_Sea_Triplane" title="Sperry Land and Sea Triplane">Sperry Land and Sea Triplane</a> </td> <td align="center">1918 </td> <td align="center">2 </td> <td align="left">Single engine triplane reconnaissance airplane </td></tr> <tr> <td align="left"><a href="/wiki/Verville-Sperry_M-1_Messenger" title="Verville-Sperry M-1 Messenger">Verville-Sperry M-1 Messenger</a> </td> <td align="center">1921 </td> <td align="center">42 </td> <td align="left">Single engine biplane communication airplane </td></tr> <tr> <td align="left"><a href="/wiki/Verville-Sperry_R-3" title="Verville-Sperry R-3">Verville-Sperry R-3</a> </td> <td align="center">1922 </td> <td align="center">3 </td> <td align="left">Single engine monoplane racing airplane </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Missiles_and_rockets">Missiles and rockets</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sperry_Corporation&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Missiles and rockets"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Sperry <a href="/wiki/MGM-29_Sergeant" title="MGM-29 Sergeant">MGM-29 Sergeant</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_popular_culture">In popular culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sperry_Corporation&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: In popular culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The 1986 comedy <i><a href="/wiki/Jumpin%27_Jack_Flash_(film)" title="Jumpin' Jack Flash (film)">Jumpin' Jack Flash</a></i> features many Sperry computers in the bank where the protagonist (played by <a href="/wiki/Whoopi_Goldberg" title="Whoopi Goldberg">Whoopi Goldberg</a>) works. <a href="/wiki/Jim_Belushi" title="Jim Belushi">Jim Belushi</a> plays the role of a Sperry "repairman".<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sperry_Corporation&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hendrik_Wade_Bode" title="Hendrik Wade Bode">Hendrik Wade Bode</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Director_(military)" title="Director (military)">Director (military)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gun_data_computer" title="Gun data computer">Gun data computer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fire-control_system" title="Fire-control system">Fire-control system</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kerrison_Predictor" title="Kerrison Predictor">Kerrison Predictor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MAPPER" title="MAPPER">MAPPER</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rangekeeper" title="Rangekeeper">Rangekeeper</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sperry_Drilling_Services" class="mw-redirect" title="Sperry Drilling Services">Sperry Drilling Services</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sperry_Corporation&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Notes">Notes</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sperry_Corporation&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit 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Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8018-1133-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8018-1133-3"><bdi>978-0-8018-1133-3</bdi></a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">June 9,</span> 2024</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Elmer+Sperry%3A+inventor+and+engineer&rft.place=Baltimore&rft.pub=Johns+Hopkins+Press&rft.date=1971&rft.isbn=978-0-8018-1133-3&rft.aulast=Hughes&rft.aufirst=Thomas+Parke&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Felmersperryinven0000hugh%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASperry+Corporation" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMindell1995" class="citation journal cs1">Mindell, David A. (April 1995). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://web.mit.edu/STS.035/www/PDFs/sperry.pdf">"Anti-Aircraft Fire Control and the Development of Integrated Systems at Sperry, 1925-1940"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i>IEEE Control Systems Magazine</i>: 108–113<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8018-8057-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8018-8057-5"><bdi>978-0-8018-8057-5</bdi></a><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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