Sperry Corporation was a major American equipment and electronics company whose existence spanned more than seven decades of the 20th century.
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10 Facts About Sperry Corporation
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Sperry Corporation made advanced aircraft navigation equipment for the market, including the Sperry Gyroscope and the Sperry Radio Direction Finder.
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Sperry Corporation supported the work of a group of Stanford University inventors, led by Russell and Sigurd Varian, who had invented the klystron, and incorporated this technology and related inventions into their products.
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Sperry Corporation was the creator of the Ball Turret Gun mounted under the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and the Consolidated B-24 Liberator, as commemorated by the film Memphis Belle and the poem The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner.
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In 1961, Sperry Corporation Rand was ranked 34th on the Fortune 500 list of largest companies in the United States.
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In 1978, Sperry Corporation Rand decided to concentrate on its computing interests, and sold a number of divisions including Remington Rand Systems, Remington Rand Machines, Ford Instrument Company and Sperry Corporation Vickers.
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At about the same time as the Rand acquisition, Sperry Corporation Gyroscope decided to open a facility that would almost exclusively produce its marine instruments.
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Sperry Corporation managed the operation from 1961 to 1975 of the large Louisiana Army Ammunition Plant near Minden.
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In January 1972, Sperry Corporation took over the RCA line of electronic digital computers .
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