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...Sperry gyropilot is named for famed Inventor Elmer Ambrose Sperry who was the first man to bridle the principles inherent in the gyroscope. The gyroscope is a carefully balanced flywheel and gimbal assembly so mounted that when at rest it is free to turn in any direction. When spinning it has a quality known as "rigidity in space" or gyroscopic inertia. Turn or move the gyroscope mounting and the flywheel will continue to rotate in the same plane. This stability provides a known factor which can be used to determine or counteract all sorts of variables. Sperry Gyroscope...
...Inventor Sperry's first demonstration of the gyrocompass was in 1910 aboard the Warship Delaware. The Delaware's chief electrician, a stocky, 24-year-old farm boy from North Carolina named Thomas Alfred Morgan, was of great help in installing the mechanism. Next year Inventor Sperry lured Tom Morgan away from the Navy to install other gyro-compasses for the new Sperry Co. Serious, hard-working Tom Morgan applied himself with such vigor that by 1922 he was vice president, had contributed immeasurably to Sperry's rise to dominance in the field of nautical and aeronautical instruments...
Died. William Leslie Edison, 58, inventor, second of Thomas Alva Edison's three children by his first wife;* in Wilmington...
Last year when John Hays Hammond died at the age of 81 in an easy chair in his showplace at Gloucester, Mass., he left an estate estimated at $2,500,000, mostly to his four children, Inventor John Hays Jr., Artist Natalie, Composer Richard, Financier Harris. Observing that his own taste for economic adventure ran in the blood of his children, especially in that of Son Harris, Father Hammond protected them by leaving the bulk of their inheritances not outright but in trust funds. It was largely due to this foresight that in a Manhattan court last week Harris Hammond...
Died. Adolf Edward Wuppermann, 65, president of the Angostura-Wuppermann Corp. (Angostura Bitters), brother of Cinemactors Ralph and Frank Morgan; of heart disease; in Greenwich, Conn. Angostura Bitters is brewed according to a secret formula known only to three descendants of Inventor Johann Gottlieb Benjamin Siegert, a retired Army surgeon who lived in Venezuela. Angostura-Wuppermann Corp. was started in 1879 by Adolf Wuppermann's father to take over the U. S. Angostura agency. When George Wuppermann died in 1915, the presidency passed to his able widow who ran the company until she died last September...