Inventor
As an inventor, Sperling created, with Mike Simmons, the Astroscan telescope for Edmund Scientific, as well as "The Stars Above" star-finder for Spherical Concepts.
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“We have all heard of Young America. He is the most current youth of the age.
Some think him conceited, and arrogant; but has he not reason to entertain a rather extensive opinion of himself? Is he not the inventor and owner of the present, and sole hope of the future?”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
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—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)
“One must be an inventor to read well.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)