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The Sperry Gyro-Compass - Sperry Gyroscope Company
Sperry Gyroscope Company
The Sperry Gyro-Compass
EAN 8596547233190
DigiCat, 2022
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Table of Contents
Putting the Earth to Work
How the Earth’s Rotation Is Utilized
How a Compass is Used
The Ideal Compass
Comparison of the Magnetic Compass with the Sperry Gyro-Compass
True North
Freedom From Calculation
Freedom From Compensation
Freedom From Checking Deviation
Influences Due to Magnetism of the Ship
Influences Due to Cargo
Influences Due to Temperature Changes
Influences Due to Roll and Pitch of the Ship
Warning of Unreliability
Advantages Attending the Use of the Sperry Gyro-Compass
The Sperry Gyro-Compass Equipment
The Master Compass
The Repeaters
Compass Control-Panel
Motor-Generator
Storage Battery
Sperry Recording Compass
Operation
Care
Sperry Service
Workmanship
Testing
Packing
The Sperry Service Organization
Service Given to the World’s Navies by the Gyro-Compass
Copyright, 1920
THE SPERRY GYROSCOPE COMPANY
BROOKLYN, N. Y., U. S. A.
DESIGNED, ENGRAVED
AND PRINTED BY
ROBERT L. STILLSON
COMPANY NEW YORK
The Sperry Gyro-CompassTHE SPERRY GYROSCOPE CO.
MAIN OFFICE AND FACTORY
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BROOKLYN, N.Y.
Man’s first venture in shipbuilding was the Raft.THE SPERRY GYROSCOPE COMPANY
Boston, Mass.
60 VIRGINIA STREET
Great Lakes District
828 GUARDIAN BUILDING
Cleveland, Ohio
San Francisco, Cal.
52 DAVIS STREET
Main European Office: THE SPERRY GYROSCOPE COMPANY, Ltd., 15 Victoria Street, London, S. W. 1
—REPRESENTATIVES—
An inflated ox-skin Balsa of earliest times.THE
SPERRY GYROSCOPE
COMPANY
Manufacturers of
GYRO-COMPASSES
GYRO SHIP STABILIZERS
GUN-FIRE CONTROL APPARATUS
NAVIGATIONAL INSTRUMENTS
NAVAL AND COMMERCIAL SEARCHLIGHTS
The ancient Egyptians built boats of rushes.
Putting the Earth to Work
Table of Contents
WHEN the earth was thrown off from the sun and commenced rotating about its own axis, there was developed a force generated by the earth’s rotation. For countless centuries this force has been at work, but no one has ever been able to harness it to serve the purposes of man. But now, through the efforts of Foucault, Hopkins, Sperry, and other noted scientists, this force has been put to work. It serves to direct