Abstract
IT was about eighty years ago that Foucault carried out his ingenious experiments with the gyroscope, but for half a century the apparatus had no practical application. It has now, however, been applied to the automatic steering of torpedoes, to the mono-rail car, to the reduction of the rolling of ships, and to the steering of ships. Of the gyroscopic compasses now in use, the Anschutz was the first, and this was followed by the Sperry and Brown compasses. H.M.S. Invincible was navigated to the Falkland Islands, and the British Submarine E11 found her way up the Dardanelles into the Sea of Marmora, by Sperry compasses, and such compasses are to be met with in every ocean.
The Theory of the Gyroscopic Compass and its Deviations.
By Dr. A. L. Rawlings s d. Pp. x + 191. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1929.) 10. 6. net.
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The Theory of the Gyroscopic Compass and its Deviations . Nature 125, 11–12 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/125011c0
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