The captain shot a look at the gyroscopic compass and gave orders for the motors to go ahead, and for half an hour the submarine pushed about under the surface.
Compensated and gyroscopic compasses, statoscopes for measuring equilibrium, thermometers and shaft speed indicators were also to be seen.
If you want an aeroplane story here's a good one--a new adjustable gyroscopic appliance for attachment to aeroplanes which renders them stable in any shifting wind currents.
The gyroscopic balancer likewise was in need of having its bearings attended to.
Round to the north she swung, her gyroscopic balancing device keeping her from heeling over, even at the sharp angle at which Frank guided her round.
The blue prints of my gyroscopic attachment and possibly my experimental machine itself," declared the inventor, "though if they had the blue prints they could easily manufacture them themselves.
After his attempt to steal the plans of Mr. Joyce's gyroscopic balancer the boys heard no more of Fred Reade in a hostile way.
The wind came in sharp, hot puffs from the north, and had it not been for the Joyce gyroscopic balancer they carried, the ship would have been in hard straits.
They had to carry it on in shouts because of the moaning and roaring of the gyroscopic motor-cars that traversed the High Street, and in its nature it was contentious and private.
But the real mischief began when Brennan sprang his gyroscopic mono-rail car upon the Royal Society.
I say "slightly" assist because the engine is, of course, throttled down for a spiral descent, and its lesser revolutions will produce a lesser gyroscopic effect.
In the case of a Gnome engine, fitted to a "pusher" aeroplane, such gyroscopic action will tend to depress the nose of the aeroplane when it is turned to the left, and to elevate it when it is turned to the right.
In this connection every pilot of an aeroplane fitted with a rotary engine should bear in mind the gyroscopic effect of such engine.
The sharper the turn, the greater such effect--an effect which may render the aeroplane unmanageable if the spiral is one of very small radius and the engine is revolving with sufficient speed to produce a material gyroscopic effect.
The gyroscopic action of a rotary engine will affect the longitudinal stability when an aeroplane is turned to right or left.
It is probable that a gyroscopic compass will be the standard type for dirigibles.
As in the case of marine navigation, a reliable compass, either of the magnetic or gyroscopic type, is essential for aerial navigation, as well as an accurate and reliable chronometer.
The "Dead Reckoning" position of an aeroplane or airship at any time is calculated from its known speed and direction over the surface of the earth or ocean, and its known course as indicated by the magnetic or gyroscopic compass.
Both diving gauges had failed and the gyroscopic compass had followed suit.
But his nerves were well in hand and his will strong; the repeater of the gyroscopic compass had ticked slowly round under his gaze until it showed 275 deg.
The compass was one of the very latest developments of the gyroscopic compass and showed the true north without regard for magnetic deviations.
The inertial gravities didn't bother me so much as the gyroscopicspin they put on the ship so we have a sort of artificial gravity to hold us against the curved floor.
The possibilities thus suggested by Cordeiro's hypothesis are so interesting that the gyroscopic motion of the earth ought to be investigated more thoroughly.
This so-called Eulerian movement is a normal gyroscopic motion like the slow gyration of a spinning top.
Without expressing any opinion as to the value of Cordeiro's results we feel that the subject of the earth's gyroscopic motion and of a possible secular change in the direction of the axis deserves investigation for two chief reasons.
Even if no such gyroscopic motion takes place, however, the other causes of mild climate discussed in this chapter may be enough to explain all the observed phenomena.
If Cordeiro is right as to the earth's elastic gyroscopic motion, there may have been certain periods when a vertical or almost vertical axis permitted the days to be of almost equal length at all seasons in all latitudes.
In the more recent submarines a gyroscopic compass[17] is used as well as the regular magnetic compass because the gyroscopic compass is not affected by stray magnetic lines of force.
For a description of the gyroscopic compass, see Inventing for Boys, by the present author and published by the Frederick A.
The experimental car was eighteen feet long and four feet wide, the gyroscopic flywheels being very light, weighing but a hundred and twenty-five pounds each, while their speed of rotation was eight thousand per minute.
All battleships in the United States Navy are now fitted with the gyroscopic compass.
Were it to travel on the surface the vessel against which it was directed might be able to avoid it; furthermore the action of the waves would tend to disturb the gyroscopic steering mechanism and the torpedo would pursue an erratic course.
The same is true of a bicycle, although the gyroscopic effect is not quite so marked, because of the lower velocity of the wheels.
While this is theoretically possible, in practice certain difficulties are encountered which up to the present have prevented gyroscopic control of aeroplanes from being entirely successful.
Although witnesses of the exhibition marveled at the strange spectacle of this mechanical tight-rope walker, they did not realize that they themselves had had gyroscopic cars in their midst for years.
These are overcome by special mechanism, so that the gyroscopic compass may now be depended upon as a perfectly reliable instrument.
Gyroscopic action plays a very important part in the flight of a bullet or shell.
Of course, the underlying cause of gyroscopic action is inertia; i.
The gyroscopic action of the wheels of a motorcycle is very marked.
The elastic flexure joint is useful for supporting a rod, carrying a fly-wheel, like a gyroscopic pendulum.
A gyroscopic fly-wheel will preserve its original direction in space only when left absolutely free in all directions, as required in the experiments above.
This gyroscopic pendulum may be supposed to represent a ship among waves, or a carriage on a monorail, and so affords an explanation of the gyroscopic action essential in the apparatus of Schlick and Brennan.
The wheel can now be spun by hand, and projected in any manner so as to produce a desired gyroscopic motion, undulating, looped, or with cusps if the stalk of the wheel is dropped from rest.
For upright spinning inside a spherical surface of radius b, the sign of a must be changed to obtain the condition at the lowest point, as in the gyroscopic horizon of Fleuriais.
In 1905, Elmer Sperry invented his gyroscopic compass which is unaffected by terrestrial magnetism and points to the true north.
In 1907, he invented his gyroscopic stabilizer which reduces greatly the rolling of ships, aeroplanes, etc.
Keep on the gyroscopic course, allowing for aberrancy, and make for the Crater of Pytho.
He carefully packed a few essentials in his knapsack, together with one chronometer and a tiny gyroscopic compass.
In 1912 our German Ministry of Marine completed a gun-boat fitted with a gyroscopic stabiliser to prevent rolling--you understand--in stormy weather.
As I mentioned before, the interest taken by the French Government in Sherbrand's gyroscopic hoverer may well have stimulated the interest of our Teuton neighbours.
There is big business in that gyroscopic stabiliser of his," he added to Saxham, "and our friends at the French War Ministry have tumbled to it as one might naturally expect.
Coloured lights, flung at intervals from reflectors in the ceiling, conveyed to Patrine the impression of staring down upon the whirling planes of a huge gyroscopic top.
The humming of her tractor came to you mingled with the buzzing of her gyroscopic hoverer, like the incessant vibration of living, sentient wings.
It concerns your gyroscopic stabiliser, the patent of which my Chiefs desired to buy for the use of our Service Aeronautique.
The 'Gnome' engine had been taken out of the stirrups, and the gyroscopic hovering-gear removed wholesale.
The gyroscopic whirl of dancers had become stationary.
If you will come over to the Bird I'll show you, and explain the working of the gyroscopic hoverer.
So von Herrnung has scooped for Germany the gyroscopic hovering-apparatus that the French War Ministry were proposing to buy.
In the case of a Gnome engine, such gyroscopic action will tend to depress the nose of the aeroplane when it is turned to the left, and to elevate it when it is turned to the right.
The men in the machine behind sat white-lipped, tense, as the whirling shocks of sudden turns at terrific speed twisted the gyroscopic seats around like peas in a rolling ball.
Dick," said Morey as he strode up to him after testing the last of the gyroscopic seats, "she's ready!
They won't spin as a rifle bullet does, and so there will be no gyroscopic effect to hold them nose on, but the streamlining and the stabilizer will keep them on their course.
The four men entered the ship and strapped themselves in the gyroscopic seats.
The Solarite reeled under the sudden pressure, but the heavy gyroscopic stabilizers caught it, held it, and the ship remained on an even keel.
Of course the main gyroscopes will balance the ship laterally, horizontally, and vertically, but each chair will have a separate gyroscopic mounting for safety.
If it were not for gyroscopic stabilizers, they could never live in that huge airpocket.
The machine, if he does this, will resist the gyroscopicmotion and maintain an even keel.
When turning to the right, as soon as he attempts this manoeuvre, the pupil finds that his craft has a tendency to rise: this is due to the gyroscopic effect of engine and propeller, which are revolving in the opposite direction to the turn.
In early days, when little was known about this gyroscopic influence, a turn to the right was considered difficult and even dangerous, and there were men who would not attempt it if they could avoid doing so.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gyroscopic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
