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Elmer Sperry: Inventor and Engineer(Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)

Elmer Sperry: Inventor and Engineer(Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)


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1972 | Dexter Prize for an Outstanding Book on the History of Technology
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This is a biography of a major American inventor, who obtained more than 350 patents during his lifetime. Elmer Sperry contributed greatly to the technological changes occurring between 1880 and 1930. He was best known for the Sperry gyrocompass and automatic pilot, and his inventions included arc-light systems, mining machinery, electric automobiles and streetcars, and electrochemical processes. Characteristic of his various inventions were feedback controls which have made automation a fact of life. The book won the Dexter Prize of the Society for the History of Technology.

Table of Contents:
Preface Introduction 1. The Cultivation of an Inventor 2. Chicago: The Maturing of an Inventor 3. The Inventor-Entrpreneur 4. The Gyrostabilizer: A Very Powerful Fulcrum in Space 5. Harnessing the Rotation of the Earth: TheGyrocompass 6. Organized Experimentation and Development: The Sperry Gyroscope Company 7. A Beast of Burden Obsessed with motion: Stabilizing the Airplane 8. Brainmill for the Military 9. The Assumption of Leadership: The Naval Consulting Board and the Aerial Torpedo 10. Fulfillment and Legacy Appendix A: Elmer Sperry Patent Applications Maturing as Patents Appendix B: Engineering and Scientific Papers of Elmer Sperry Index

About the Author :
Thomas P. Hughes is professor of the history of modern science and technology at the University of Pennsylvania and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His books include Changing Attitudes toward American Technology and Networks of Power:Electrification in Western Society, 1880-1930.

Review :
Superb... In this careful study of a single inventor, Hughes has done more to demonstrate the 'questionable' nature of traditional accounts of invention than all of the theoretical arguments of the past few years combined. Technology and Culture


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780801847561
  • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Height: 254 mm
  • No of Pages: 368
  • Series Title: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology
  • Weight: 862 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0801847567
  • Publisher Date: 26 Nov 1993
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: 01
  • Sub Title: Inventor and Engineer
  • Width: 197 mm


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