Elmer Sperry - Inventor and Engineer (Paperback, New Ed)

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.

General

Imprint:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology
Release date:	November 1993
First published:	1972
Authors:	Thomas Parker Hughes
Dimensions:	254 x 197 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	368
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-8018-4756-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Professional & Technical > Technology: general issues > Engineering: general Books > Biography > General
LSN:	0-8018-4756-7
Barcode:	9780801847561

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