This gyrocompass was employed to guide the flight path of World War II V2 rockets. The gyrocompass directed the rocket during the powered section of...Gyrocompass, c 1940.
Women electrical workers picketing Sperry Gyroscope Co. In Lake Success, L.I., form a conga line to while away time.Women electrical workers picketing Sperry Gyroscope Co. in L
Non-striker in car fails to get by CIO picket line at Sperry Gyroscope Co. Gate at Lake Success. One of the electrical worker strikers throws himself...Non-striker in car fails to get by CIO picket line at Sperry
Missiles U.S. Sergeant The United States Army Sergeant surface-to-surface guided ballistic missile. The Sergeant missile is still under development...Denver Post Archives
Elmer Ambrose Sperry is the inventor of the gyroscope, an effective navigational aid, and he is a specialist in electric-powered vehicles.Inventor Elmer A. Sperry Holding Gyroscope
The Gyro-Stabiliser, 1938. One of three gyroscopic stabilisers built by the Sperry Gyroscope Company for the Italian liner Conte di Savoia in order...The Gyro-Stabiliser, 1938. Artist: Unknown.
Portrait of James E Webb, former Vice President of the Sperry Gyroscope Company, nominated by President Truman to be director of the budget, 1946.James E. Webb
New Mexico: A United States Army Surface-To-Surface guided ballistic missile elevated to firing position at White Sands Proving Ground. The missile...Rocket Aimed into Space
New Army radar which can pinpoint source of enemy fire is checked by soldier technicians. Developed by the Army Signal Corps Engineering...Man Working on Radar
American aviator Wiley Post in the cockpit of his Lockheed Vega, which is fitted with an early autopilot by Sperry Gyroscope, Queens, New York, 7th...Pilot at Automatic Controls
Members of the Hayden Planetarium of the American Museum of Natural History, New York City, just after they had recorded their observations of the...Planetarium Members Recording Eclipse Observations
Los Angeles: A World Famed Trio. Left to right: Elmer S. Sperry, inventor of the gyro compass used in every Navy in the world, and inventor of the...Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover and Affiliates Posing at Luncheon
Missiles U.S. Sergeant; The United States Army Sergeant surface-to-surface guided ballistic missile.; The Sergeant missile is still under development...SEP 1 1962; Missiles U.S. Sergeant; The United States Army Sergeant surface-to-surface guided ballis
Exterior view of the factory building of the Sperry Gyroscope Company on Flatbush Avenue in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, New York, circa...Sperry Gyroscope Company, Brooklyn, NYC
An engineer of the Sperry Gyroscope Company inspects the company's new system of commercial flight instruments, circa 1955. The Sperry Integrated...Engineer Inspecting Flight Instruments
Lincoln Warehouse Corporation employees in a removal van, with chairs at the bottom of the ramp, as the United Nations were moved from Hunter...Lincoln Warehouse Corporation Moving The UN
Royal Navy submarine officers study the workings of a Sperry gyrocompass as part of Submariner training at a Royal Navy base in Great Britain during...Studying A Gyrocompass
The United Nations Security Council meets at Lake Success, New York in and undated 1950 photo. The building was originally used by the Sperry...United Nations Security Council meets in Lake Success in 1950
1940s UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS 1946-1952 SPERRY GYROSCOPE CORP BUILDING LAKE SUCCESS NORTH HEMPSTEAD LONG ISLAND NEW YORK USA1940s UNITED NATIONS...
Part of the crew of a four-engined Skymaster plane at Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, after flying the Atlantic by autopilot without a human hand touching...Pilotless Plane Flies the Atlantic
Retirement from Sperry Gyroscope Unit, 31 December 1958. William I Selover -- 65 years ;Rear Admiral Frank D Higbee ;Roy Melvye .;Supplementary...Retirement from Sperry Gyroscope Unit, 1958
Retirement from Sperry Gyroscope Unit, 31 December 1958. William I Selover -- 65 years ;Rear Admiral Frank D Higbee ;Roy Melvye .;Supplementary...Retirement from Sperry Gyroscope Unit, 1958