The next time you're on a plane, here's something to take your mind off the unhappy baby in row 34 or the food cart that just ran over your foot–gyros! Used for inertial navigation and basic input to ...

[Curious Marc] has an Apollo-era gyroscope but isn’t quite ready to put it through this paces without some practice. So he borrowed a 1949 vintage Sperry C5 gyro and did some experiments with it using ...

Entomologists and mechanical engineers ordinarily have little to do with one another. The first study bugs; the second design machinery. But last week the Sperry Gyroscope Co., designers of highbrow ...

Perhaps the greatest invention to make for the safe navigation of ocean-going ships since the introduction of the sextant and wireless, has been the gyroscopic-compass. Since the first introduction of ...

ALTHOUGH the theory of the gyroscope has been taught for more than fifty years in several universities, it is only recently that the instalment of gyro-stabilisers for ships, yachts, and aircraft ...

Mr. Elmer A. Sperry, President of the Sperry Gyroscope Company, will lecture in the Living Room of the Union next Monday evening, November 15th, at 8 o'clock, under the auspices of the Department of ...

A radical departure from conventional gyro design has resulted in a device that can detect motion too minute to be measured. The miniature gyro's unique sensing ability makes it especially suitable ...

England has long boasted the so-called “Queen Bee” type of airplane which takes off, flies and lands without a soul aboard, being controlled by radio from the ground or by an accompanying plane. As ...

Raytheon Anschütz do Brasil reports a number of contract awards for the supply of gyro compass and autopilot systems to new offshore platform supply vessels built at Brazilian shipyards. The largest ...

Brains and business sense. This extraordinary combination helped Elmer A. Sperry found eight companies and earn close to 400 patents. His designs spanned many decades and industries, starting with ...