Elmer Sperry developed the Stallemometer as a follow-on component to the first successful aircraft autopilot, demonstrated by Sperry in 1914. The Stallemometer detected a stall flutter and then function as a switch to drop the nose by twenty degrees through the autopilot until a stall recovery occurred. A light provided a further warning that the stall had occurred and a recovery was underway. Like the autopilot itself, the Stallemometer was not seen by aviators as a desirable innovation due to cost, weight, complexity and its subsuming of pilot control over the flight. Such systems did enjoy a resurgance fifty years later as increasing levels of autopilot autonomy became standard on larger transport aircraft.