Sperry Corporation

Sperry Corporation was a major American equipment and electronics company whose existence spanned more than seven decades of the twentieth century. It ceased to exist in 1986 following a prolonged hostile takeover bid engineered by Burroughs Corporation, which merged the combined operation under the new name Unisys. The company was best known as the developer of the artificial horizon and a wide variety of other gyroscope-based aviation instruments, and in the post-World War II era it branched out into electronics and later computers. It was incorporated on April 14, 1910, by Elmer Ambrose Sperry as the Sperry Gyroscope Company.