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8 unusual facts about Sperry Corporation


Benton Air Force Station

Officials from the U.S. government and Sperry Corporation, the manufacturer, had to be called to Colley Township to investigate the situation.

Denis Redman

Following his retirement from the British Army, Redman worked at Sperry Gyroscope, an American equipment and electronics company, as a military advisor.

Hugh J. Knerr

In private life, Knerr went to work for the Sperry Corporation Research Laboratories, wrote numerous magazine articles advocating his positions, and conducted a letter-writing campaign against Arnold between 1939 and 1941.

Kerrison Predictor

By the late 1930s, both Vickers and Sperry had developed predictors for use against high altitude bombers.

New Holland Machine Company

The New Holland Machine Company was purchased by the Sperry Corporation in 1947, to form Sperry-New Holland.

Paoli Research Center

The research center continued after Burroughs and Sperry Corporation merged to become Unisys and performed both research for the Unisys corporation as well as for government sponsors.

Robert Smallwood

Smallwood moved to New Orleans where he worked for Burroughs Corporation (later Unisys after a merger with Sperry) selling mainframe computers to commercial banks.

Stephen Joseph Zand

Stephen Joseph Zand (September 18, 1898 - 24 January 1963) was an aeronautical pioneer who worked at the Sperry Gyroscope Co. and was later Vice-President of Engineering at the Lord Corporation.


Herman Lukoff

He followed ENIAC co-inventors J. Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly to their newly formed Electronic Control Company, which became Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation, then became part of Remington Rand in 1950 and Sperry Corporation in 1955.

Laboratory for Automation Psychology

Research in the LAP has been supported by corporations such as AT&T, Sperry, and IBM and by U.S. federal agencies such as NASA, NSF, NRL, and the U.S. Census Bureau.

Nicholas J. Phillips

He was a research scientist at the Sperry Rand Research Centre, Sudbury, Massachusetts, USA, from 1962-1963.

William Seward Burroughs I

He was a founder of the American Arithmometer Company (1886), which later became the Burroughs Adding Machine Company (1904), then the Burroughs Corporation (1953) and in 1986, merged with Sperry Corporation to form Unisys.


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