Nero himself, given to lighting displays, would have envied the white-haired, alert inventor, with snapping eyes and snapping speech, who could burn, for an evening’s divertisement a billion and 200 ...

Entomologists and mechanical engineers ordinarily have little to do with one another. The first study bugs; the second design machinery. But last week the Sperry Gyroscope Co., designers of highbrow ...

Elmer A. Sperry casts a long shadow over the history of modern naval, nautical and aeronautical technology, one few people know much about, but should, for a man crowned both the “father of modern ...