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1951 The Sperry
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Stock Code VM-SPC01 |
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Certificate dated 5th April
1951 for seven shares of common stock, par value $1 each. Issued
to Rose Turoff. Ornate red border.
Certificate size is
19
cm high x 23.5 cm wide (8" x 10"). It will be mounted in a
mahogany frame, with gold inlay, size 31 cm high x 39 cm wide.
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as all items are mounted to order.
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About This
Company The company was founded
in 1910 as the Sperry Gyroscope Company by Elmer
Ambrose Sperry to manufacture navigation equipment, chiefly
his own inventions – the marine gyrostabilizer and the
gyrocompass. During World War I the company diversified into
aircraft components including bomb sights and fire control
systems.
In 1918 Lawrence Sperry split from his
father to compete over aero-instruments with the Lawrence
Sperry Aircraft Company, including the new automatic
pilot. In 1924 following the death of Lawrence on December
13, 1923, the two firms were brought together. The company
became Sperry Corporation in 1933. The new
corporation was a holding company for a number of smaller
entities such as the original Sperry Gyroscope, Ford
Instrument Company, Intercontinental Aviation, Inc.,
and others.
The company did very well during World War
II as military demand skyrocketed; it specialised in high
technology devices such as analog computer-controlled bomb
sights, airborne radar systems, and automated take off and
landing systems. Postwar, the company expanded its interests
in electronics and computing, producing the company's first
digital computer, SPEEDAC, in 1953.
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