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Elmer A. Sperry_Father of modern navigation technology.

                           The First Question comes in our mind : 1 :Who was Elmer Ambrose Sperry?    2 :What was the Gyroscopic Compass?     Elmer Ambrose Sperry Sr. (October 12, 1860 – June 16, 1930) was an American inventor , and Father of modern navigation technology. In the year 1913, Sperry created a gyro that could control the elevators and ailerons of an aircraft through a series of servos. 2 :What was the Gyroscopic Compass:     A Gyroscope (from the Greek ‘gyro’ means turn or revolution and ‘skopein’, means to view) is an apparatus in which a heavy flywheel or top rotates at high speed, the turning movement resisting change of direction of axis.  There are 4 laws or facts act upon which gyrocompass operation depends, the first two are internal properties of the gyroscope namely. 1:Gyroscopic inertia (rigidly in space) 2:Precession  3: Earth   rotati...