The company was founded in 1910, as the Sperry Gyroscope Company by Elmer Ambrose Sperry to manufacture navigation equipment, chiefly his own inventions-the marine gyrostabilizer and the gyrocompass at 40 Flatbush Avenue Extension in Downtown Brooklyn [REF].
The company prospered during World War II as military demand skyrocketed, ranking 19th among US corporations in the value of wartime production contracts [REF].