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Elmer Ambrose Sperry (born October 12, 1860 in Cincinnatus, New York; died June 16, 1930 in Brooklyn, New York) was an inventor and entrepreneur. In 1880, he founded the Sperry Electric Company in Chicago, Illinois to manufacture the electric dynamos and arc lamps that he had invented as a teenager. Over the next fifty years, he founded seven more companies to manufacture his own inventions, including: The companies eventually evolved into the Sperry Corporation. Sperry was also a founding member of the US Naval Consulting Board, 1915. In 1916, Sperry joined Peter Hewitt to develop the Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane, one of the first successful precursors of the UAV.
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