Northrop Grumman Sperry Marine is a part of
Northrop Grumman Mission Systems. Through various mergers, Northrop Grumman Sperry Marine was built out of companies including
Decca Radar
The Decca Radar company was a British manufacturer of radar systems. There were originally two divisions, Marine and Heavy Radar, with separate product lines. The latter was sold to Plessey in 1965, and the term "Decca Radar" normally refers to ...
s,
Sperry Marine Sperry may refer to:
Places
In the United States:
*Sperry, Iowa, community in Des Moines County
*Sperry, Missouri
*Sperry, Oklahoma, town in Tulsa County
*Sperry Chalet, historic backcountry chalet, Glacier National Park, Montana
*Sperry Glacier, ...
, and C. Plath and
Litton Industries
Litton Industries was a large defense contractor in the United States named after inventor Charles Litton Sr.
During the 1960s, the company began acquiring many unrelated firms and became one of the largest conglomerates in the United States. ...
. The company is headquartered in
New Malden, UK, with offices in Germany, Netherlands, Denmark, China, India, Singapore, South Korea, USA, and Canada.
Sperry Marine is one of the oldest manufacturers of gyrocompasses. Its founder,
Elmer Ambrose Sperry, was working on the first prototype of the gyrocompass at the same time as
Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe
Hermann Franz Joseph Hubertus Maria Anschütz-Kaempfe (3 October 1872 – 6 May 1931) was a German art historian and inventor. He was born in Zweibrücken and died in Munich.
In his quest to navigate to the North Pole by submarine, he becam ...
was developing his. Eventually, the rivalry between these two inventors over the gyrocompass went to court, where
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein ( ; ; 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist, widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest and most influential physicists of all time. Einstein is best known for developing the theory ...
was included as an unambiguous expert.
Northrop Grumman Sperry Marine currently operates in over 15 countries and employs over 500 people.
References
External links
Sperry Marine website{{Northrop Grumman, state=autocollapse
Radar
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