gyroscope, device containing a rapidly spinning wheel or circulating beam of light that is used to detect the deviation of an object from its desired orientation. Gyroscopes are used in compasses and automatic pilots on ships and aircraft, in the steering mechanisms of torpedoes, and in the ...

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Gyrocompass, navigational instrument on ships and submarines which makes use of a continuously driven gyroscope to accurately seek the direction of true ...

gyroscope , A mechanical or optical device used to maintain orientation during motion. ...

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Gyroscopes are used for a variety of purposes, including navigation. Use of gyroscopes for this purpose is called inertial guidance. The gyroscope is suspended ...

Mechanical gyroscopes are based on a principle discovered in the 19th century by Jean-Bernard-Léon Foucault, a French physicist who gave the name gyroscope to a ...

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In gyroscope: Mechanical gyroscopes … was developed by German inventor H. Anschütz-Kaempfe for use in a submersible. In 1909 American inventor Elmer A. ...

Gyroscopes are also employed in a type of nonmagnetic compass called the gyrocompass. The gyroscope is mounted in three sets of concentric rings connected by ...

The relatively slow drift of the directional gyroscope from its heading may be corrected manually from time to time when the airplane is in level and straight ...

Precession, phenomenon associated with the action of a gyroscope or a spinning top and consisting of a comparatively slow rotation of the ...

The gyroscopes provide fixed reference directions or turning rate measurements, and accelerometers measure changes in the velocity of the system. The computer ...

gyroscope, device containing a rapidly spinning wheel or circulating beam of light that is used to detect the deviation of an object from its ...

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Gyroscopes are also employed in a type of nonmagnetic compass called the gyrocompass. The gyroscope is mounted in three sets of concentric ...

... gyroscope spin-axis due to acceleration is exactly the rate of ... The phantom is supported by thrust bearings in the spider (a mounting that ...

Now imagine this happening vertically on a bike, and you can see that the gyroscopic precession from the bikes leftward lean makes the front wheel turned to ...

... flow, or magnetic saturation) is mounted on a gyroscope, but this is not always convenient from the point of view of size and weight. ...

Gyroscopes are used for a variety of purposes, including navigation. Use of gyroscopes for this purpose is called inertial guidance. The gyroscope is suspended ...

... readily induced to carry a maximum magnetic flow, or magnetic saturation) is mounted on a gyroscope, but this is not always convenient… ...

Other articles where Mark 14 gyroscopic lead-computing gunsight is discussed: Charles Stark Draper: …students designed and built the Mark 14 gyroscopic ...

In this application the gyroscopes do not provide a stable platform; they are instead used to sense the turning rates of the craft. Double numerical integration ...

Vice President, Sperry Gyroscope Company, Inc., Brooklyn, New York, 1932–45. ...

The Sperry Corporation arose out of the merger of North American Aviation Company, Curtiss-Wright Corporation, and Sperry Gyroscope in 1933. The corporation ...