Morris M. Titterington

Titterington graduated from Bliss Electrical School in 1913.In 1918 he was working for the Sperry Gyroscope Corporation and was living in Brooklyn.Titterington and Brice Herbert Goldsborough founded the Pioneer Instrument Company in 1919.Titterington designed the Earth inductor compass in 1924.In 1928 he took off in a Travel Air, headed across the Pennsylvania mountains and crashed to his death during bad weather after being struck by lightning.
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