Elmer Sperry: Inventor and Engineer

Awarded the Dexter Prize of the Society for the History of Technology

A major Amercan inventor who obtained more than 350 patents during his lifetime, Elmer Sperry contributed greatly to the momentous technological changes that occured between 1880 and 1930. Best known for the Sperry gyrocompass and automatic pilot, his inventions included arc-light systems, mining machinery, electric automobiles and streetcars, and electrochemical processess. Characteristic of his various inventions were feedback controls that have made automation a fact of life. Richly illustrated with 149 photographs and line drawings, the first full-length biography now returns to print in a paperback edition.

Author: Thomas Parker Hughes
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 10/01/1993
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.83lbs
Size: 11.20h x 8.24w x 0.82d
ISBN: 9780801847561

About the Author

Thomas P. Hughes is professor of the history of modern science and technology at the University of Pennsylvania and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His books include Changing Attitudes toward American Technology and Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880-1930.

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