INVENTOR

Elmer Ambrose Sperry

1860 - 1930

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Elmer Ambrose Sperry Sr. (October 12, 1860 – June 16, 1930) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elmer Ambrose Sperry has received more than 163,734 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Elmer Ambrose Sperry is the 382nd most popular inventor (down from 360th in 2019), the 8,856th most popular biography from United States (up from 9,198th in 2019) and the 104th most popular American Inventor.

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  • 160k

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  • 52.48

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Elmer Ambrose Sperry ranks 382 out of 426. Before him are William Fothergill Cooke, Karl Jatho, Wordsworth Donisthorpe, Harold Eugene Edgerton, Kálmán Tihanyi, and Barnes Wallis. After him are Mohamed M. Atalla, Herbert E. Ives, Robert S. Langer, Oleg Losev, John Shepherd-Barron, and Mark Rober.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, Elmer Ambrose Sperry ranks 131. Before him are John Antoine Nau, Carlos José Solórzano, Antônio Parreiras, Alexey Favorsky, Jacques Sautereau, and Frederick Rolfe. After him are Emily Hobhouse, Grigory Grum-Grshimailo, Chandramukhi Basu, Joseph Cook, Daniel Barringer, and Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading. Among people deceased in 1930, Elmer Ambrose Sperry ranks 121. Before him are Ernest Henry Wilson, Gombojab Tsybikov, Eligio Ayala, Edward Angle, Varlam Avanesov, and Sigurd Ibsen. After him are Maria Polydouri, Ivan Yakovlev, Peter Warlock, Anna Whitlock, Erik Algot Fredriksson, and Mary Harrison McKee.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Elmer Ambrose Sperry ranks 8,856 out of 20,380. Before him are Jo Stafford (1917), Mark Schultz (1960), Ernie Lively (1947), Henry Dearborn (1751), Chris Poland (1957), and Carol Heiss (1940). After him are Adam Rodriguez (1975), Lillian Disney (1899), Norman Greenbaum (1942), R. James Woolsey Jr. (1941), Frankie Muniz (1985), and Cedric the Entertainer (1964).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Elmer Ambrose Sperry ranks 104. Before him are Lewis Howard Latimer (1848), Henry J. Kaiser (1882), Frank Piasecki (1919), Margaret E. Knight (1838), Alfred Carlton Gilbert (1884), and Harold Eugene Edgerton (1903). After him are Herbert E. Ives (1882), Robert S. Langer (1948), Mark Rober (1980), Norman Joseph Woodland (1921), Gary Fisher (1950), and George Beauchamp (1899).

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