He closed the switch, and the great threaded plug swung gently on its gimbals and began to revolve, swiftly and silently.
The gimbals consist of a loose ring fastened by thumb-screws to the middle part of the frame of the barometer, in front and back.
To effect this they are suspended ingimbals by a brass arm.
Nozzles of cone-shaped propulsion units on gimbals hung in neutral.
Moving to the power plant he examined the reactor's cover and seals for seepage and the thruster nozzles and gimbals for cracks and wear.
Kidd was quite delighted with the compass, the card of which was properly marked and framed in a block of wood, and said it could easily be suspended on gimbals and fixed on a binnacle.
Stern only cast a glance at the sun and at his compass, hung there in gimbalsbefore him, and with firm hand steadied the machine for the long problematical flight to westward.
This compass I've rigged on gimbals here, beats anything Pauillac himself ever had.
To my great surprise, however, when I emerged from my state-room and caught a glimpse of the tell-tale compass hanging in gimbals in the skylight opening of the main cabin, I saw that the ship was heading to the eastward!
Defn: A telescope with a diagonal eyepiece, suspended vertically in gimbals by the object end beneath a fixed diagonal plane mirror.
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