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GYBOSCOPE AT SEA.Ocean to Be Robbed of One More Terror by tho Device.The purchase of the German rights of the Schllck gyroscope by the Hamburg-American line foreshadows the near practical use of this Invention for averting the rolling of ships at sea, says the New York World. Experiments made with the device on the See-baer, a discorded German torpedo boat, proved Its practicability, the vessel's arc of oscillation In a rough sea being speedily reduced from SO degrees to 1 degree. It is the Hamburg company’s intention to equip its North Sea and channel boats with the apparatus. If effective there the time will be brought near when the 6ea will be robbed of one of Its terrors.The Idea of the gyroscope is the fa miliar principle of the spinning top which rotates in the 6*»nie plane and tends constantly to remain upright As mechanically elaborated the device consists of a heavy fly-wheel propelled on a vertical axis at high velocity by a turbine mechanism As the vessel rolls the gyroscope exerts a contrary pull toward the center, with the effect ox keeping the equilibrium fairly stable. In the Scebner experiments the roiling diminished after a few oscillations to a point where the deck remained vlr tually horizontal when vessls of larger dimensions rolled helplessly in the sea’s trough.The gyroscope is an old astronomer’s top. A writer in McClure’s recalls that It was used half a century ago to give steadiness to ships’ compasses. A century before that It was the subject of
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Galva Weekly News
Galva, Illinois, US
Thu, Jun 11, 1908
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