# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elmer-ambrose-sperry
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:43:36.031Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elmer-ambrose-sperry"
name: "Elmer Ambrose Sperry"
slug: "elmer-ambrose-sperry"
description: "Elmer Ambrose Sperry Sr. was an American inventor and entrepreneur, most famous for construction, two years after Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe, of the gyrocompass and as founder of the Sperry Gyroscope Company. He was known as the \"father of modern navigation technology\"."
tagline: "American mechanical engineer (1860–1930)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Elmer_Ambrose_Sperry.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1860-10-12"
deathDate: "1930-06-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             15.5020920502092
  historical:           13.37307733333333
  currentAttention:     0.28
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Էլմեր Սպերրի"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump