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Gyroscope   Listen
noun
Gyroscope  n.  
1.
A rotating wheel, mounted in a ring or rings, for illustrating the dynamics of rotating bodies, the composition of rotations, etc. It was devised by Professor W. R. Johnson, in 1832, by whom it was called the rotascope.
2.
A form of the above apparatus, invented by M. Foucault, mounted so delicately as to render visible the rotation of the earth, through the tendency of the rotating wheel to preserve a constant plane of rotation, independently of the earth's motion.





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"Gyroscope" Quotes from Famous Books



... "If I had left that installed it would have meant carrying a smaller diving bell, and I think that last will be more useful than the gyroscope. I put in a set ...
— Tom Swift and his Undersea Search - or, The Treasure on the Floor of the Atlantic • Victor Appleton
... the mechanics you have discharged for not doing their work properly might have done it. But the fellow I suspect is that young army officer who got huffy because you wouldn't explain all about your equalizing gyroscope, ...
— Dick Hamilton's Airship - or, A Young Millionaire in the Clouds • Howard R. Garis


Words linked to "Gyroscope" :   gyrostabiliser, gyroscopic, gyrocompass, gyro, rotating mechanism


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