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THE first gyro compasses tried in the Royal Navy were those of Anschutz, several being fitted in 1910–11. Two years later, in 1913, Sperry gyro compass outfits were fitted in H.M.S. St. Vincent and Submarine E.1., and tests were carried out at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. As a result of these experiments, during 1914-15 Sperry gyro compasses and for use in the event of electrical failure. To meet the needs of officers navigating ships, in 1925 the “Admiralty Manual of the Gyroscopic Compass” was issued. This has now been cancelled by the publication of the present volume. It is a work of the utmost value to navigating officers, containing as it does a series of chapters on the theory, construction, adjustment and maintenance of gyro compasses, all illustrated by photographs and diagrams.
Admiralty Compass Department. Admiralty Manual of the Sperry Gyro Compass, 1931.
(B.R. 9.) Pp. viii + 136 + 43 plates. (London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1931.) 4s. 6d. net.
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Admiralty Compass Department Admiralty Manual of the Sperry Gyro Compass, 1931. Nature 132, 10 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132010d0
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