Elmer Ambrose Sperry Sr. was an American inventor and entrepreneur, most famous for construction, two years after Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe, of the gyrocompass and as founder of the Sperry Gyroscope Company. He was known as the "father of modern navigation technology".
- Occupation
- inventor, businessperson, entrepreneur
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- October 12, 1860
- Died
- June 16, 1930
