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| Founded | 1910 in Downtown Brooklyn, New York City, U.S. |
| Founder | Elmer Ambrose Sperry |
| Defunct | September 16, 1986 |
| Fate | Merged with Burroughs Corporation |
| Successor | Unisys |
| Headquarters | , U.S |
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| Parent | North American Aviation (1929–1933) |
| Subsidiaries | Aircraft Radio Corporation |
Sperry Corporation was a major American equipment and electronics company whose existence spanned more than seven decades of the 20th century. Sperry 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. Some of Sperry's former divisions became part of Honeywell, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon Technologies, and Northrop Grumman.
The company is best known as the developer of the artificial horizon and a wide variety of other gyroscope-based aviation instruments like autopilots, bombsights, analog ballistics computers and gyro gunsights. In the post-WWII era the company branched out into electronics, both aviation-related, and later, computers.
The company was founded by Elmer Ambrose Sperry.
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