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Definition of Sperry
1. Noun. United States engineer and inventor of the gyrocompass (1860-1930).
Generic synonyms: Applied Scientist, Engineer, Technologist, Artificer, Discoverer, Inventor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sperry
Literary usage of Sperry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Town and City of Waterbury, Connecticut by Sarah Johnson Prichard (1896)
"Abigail Sperry m. Jonathan Scott, 1736. Alfred C. Sperry of Bethany m. Harriet A.
Isbell, Sept. ... Allen Sperry and Abigail from North- field:1 Polly, bap. ..."
2. The Proceedings of the Hague Peace Conferences: Translation of the Original by James Brown Scott (1921)
"Rear Admiral Sperry considers the wording too broad and would like to ...
Rear Admiral Sperry having concurred in this wording, it is accepted by the ..."
3. The Literary Diary of Ezra Stiles: Ed. Under the Authority of the by Ezra Stiles (1901)
"Visited aged Mr. Joseph Sperry set. 76, & Son, who gave me accor of the first
accession of the famy, the Traditions of the Regicides, Col Whaley, Col. ..."
4. Men of Mark in Connecticut: Ideals of American Life Told in Biographies and edited by Norris Galpin Osborn (1907)
"Richard Sperry, one of his paternal forbears, came to America in 1643 as a
representative of the Earl of Warwick. The land allotted to him in New Haven ..."
5. Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals, who Have Been Condemned and Executed by Arthur L. Hayward (1873)
"After the Expiration i ' this Term, William Sperry went to live at Phi,.- delphia,
the Capital of Pennsylvania, one of the be-' Plantations the English have ..."
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