Apr 14, 2015 - Sale 2380

Sale 2380 - Lot 58

Price Realized: $ 594
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(AVIATION.) Archive of Elmer A. Sperry Sr. and the Sperry Gyroscope Corporation. One box (0.6 linear feet) plus 2 oversized items, including: 12 loose photographs and a scrapbook of 48 photographs, one book, one letter, and a scrapbook and two folders of press clippings; various sizes and conditions. Vp, 1919-61
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Elmer Ambrose Sperry (1860-1930) was best known as an inventor of the gyrocompass and founder of the Sperry Gyroscope Corporation, making him an important figure in early aviation. This small collection includes a 1958 letter from Chester W. Curtis to Sperry Gyroscope recounting his 1911 assistance to Lawrence Sperry in building a biplane, accompanied by photographs. Other highlights are a photograph of Amelia Earhart posing with Sperry officials; a family photo album showing the Sperrys in Japan; a printed biography of Sperry in Japanese; and two studio portraits of Sperry.