Elmer Sperry

Inventor and Engineer
Erscheinungsjahr 1993
ISBN: 978-0-8018-4756-1
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 280 mm, Gewicht: 909 g

Reihe: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hughes, Thomas Parke

Hughes, Thomas Parker

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technikgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Medizin
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Erfindungen und Erfinder 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Introduction
1. The Cultivation of an Inventor
2. Chicago: The Maturing of an Inventor
3. The Inventor-Entrpreneur
4. The Gyrostabilizer: A Very Powerful Fulcrum in Space
5. Harnessing the Rotation of the Earth: TheGyrocompass
6. Organized Experimentation and Development: The Sperry Gyroscope Company
7. A Beast of Burden Obsessed with motion: Stabilizing the Airplane
8. Brainmill for the Military
9. The Assumption of Leadership: The Naval Consulting Board and the Aerial Torpedo
10. Fulfillment and Legacy
Appendix A: Elmer Sperry Patent Applications Maturing as Patents
Appendix B: Engineering and Scientific Papers of Elmer Sperry
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hughes, Thomas Parker
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 Elmer Sperry, Inventor and Engineer.

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.