His compasses and stabilizers were adopted by the United States Navy and used in both world wars. and his first compass was tested that same year in Delaware (Battleship No. In 1910, he started the Sperry Gyroscope Co. Sperry experimented with diesel engines and gyroscopic compasses and stabilizers for ships and aircraft. Townshend, developed a process for making pure caustic soda from salt and discovered a process for recovering tin from scrap metal. In 1900, Sperry established an electrochemical laboratory at Washington, D.C., where he and his associate, C. He organized the Sperry Electric Mining Machine Co. He moved to Chicago, Ill., early in 1880 and, soon thereafter, founded the Sperry Electric Co. After spending three years at the state normal school there, he became interested in dynamo electricity during a year of study at Cornell University in 18. two propellers, 11,800shpĮlmer Ambrose Sperry was born on 12 October 1860 at Cortland, N.Y.

Single Fairbanks Morse Main Reduction Gear Propulsion General Motors 16-248 Diesel electric engines Sale Price $1,526.726Īrmament four single 5'/38 cal gun mounts Departed the National Defense Reserve Fleet Suisun Bay Group, 28 September 2011. Final Disposition, sold 28 July 2011 to ESCO Marine, Brownsville TX.Title transfer to the Maritime Administration, 1 February 1999.Laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benecia, CA., 16 March 1998.Laid up in the Navy Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility (NISMF) Bremerton, WA.Struck from the Naval Register, 30 September 1982.Commissioned USS Sperry (AS-12),, CAPT.Laid down, 1 February 1941, at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA.Third Row - World War II Victory Medal - National Defense Service Medal (2) - Navy Sea Service Deployment Ribbon Second Row - Navy Battle 'E' (2) - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal Top Row - Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation

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