Sperry Corporation

Sperry Corporation

Industry	Aerospace Defense Electronics Information Technology
Founded	1910; 114 years ago (1910) in Downtown Brooklyn, New York City, U.S.
Founder	Elmer Ambrose Sperry
Defunct	September 16, 1986 (1986-09-16)
Fate	Merged with Burroughs Corporation
Successor	Unisys
Headquarters	Lake Success, New York , U.S
Key people	Thomas A. Morgan[1] Harry Franklin Vickers Hannibal Ford James E. Webb
Parent	North American Aviation (1929–1933)
Subsidiaries	Aircraft Radio Corporation

Sperry Corporation was a major American equipment and electronics company whose existence spanned more than seven decades of the 20th century. Sperry ceased to exist in 1986 following a prolonged hostile takeover bid engineered by Burroughs Corporation, which merged the combined operation under the new name Unisys. Some of Sperry's former divisions became part of Honeywell, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon Technologies, and Northrop Grumman.

The company is best known as the developer of the artificial horizon and a wide variety of other gyroscope-based aviation instruments like autopilots, bombsights, analog ballistics computers and gyro gunsights. In the post-WWII era the company branched out into electronics, both aviation-related, and later, computers.

The company was founded by Elmer Ambrose Sperry.