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Gyroscope  Gyroscope, any device consisting of a rapidly spinning wheel set in a ... In 1911 Elmer A. Sperry marketed a gyroscope in the United States, and one was ... of the Earth's rotation is counter clockwise when seen from above the North Pole, the .... magnetic fields are used to constrain the rotor axle in azimuth and elevation.
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Gyrocompass - Wikipedia  A gyrocompass is a type of non-magnetic compass which is based on a fast-spinning disc and ... This is because true north is the only direction for which the gyroscope can ... be stationary and pointing along the Earth's surface toward the true North Pole. ...... In the United States, Elmer Ambrose Sperry produced a workable...
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How does a magnetic compass work? - Explain that Stuff  Oct 16, 2016 ... What other types of compasses are there? ... Photo: A magnetic compass points north because it aligns itself with the magnetic field ... Left to its own devices, the needle turns until one end points north and the other south. ... In other words, the thing we call Earth's magnetic north pole is actually the south...
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CHAPTER 2 HEADING SENSORS 2.1 Mechanical Gyroscopes  At the North Pole, a gyroscope encounters a rotation of ... construction of the rotor cause even the best mechanical gyros to drift with ... Unlike the magnetic compass, however, rate integrating gyros can ... Anschutz-Kaempfe in 1903, and in the U.S. by Elmer Sperry in 1908 [Carter, ... ing device for manipulating a cursor in.
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Theory of Gyrocompass - SlideShare  Jan 14, 2015 ... A gyroscope, not to be confused with gyrocompass, is a spinning ... a type of non- Gokul Lakshmanan lakshmanangokul7@gmail.com 24 REFERENCE [1]H.Hamilton, .... In the United States, Elmer Ambrose Sperry produced a workable ... navigation systems where magnetic compasses would not work (as...
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jeopardy/131_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  NONFICTION | In "History of My Calamities", he wrote about his tragic romance with ... SCIENCE | On June 1, 1831, James Clark Ross discovered this when a compass needle he was holding pointed straight down | Magnetic North Pole.
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Amundsen's South Pole expedition - Wikipedia  The first expedition to reach the geographic South Pole was led by the Norwegian explorer .... Fram had been designed and built in 189193 by Colin Archer, Norway's ...... Lincoln Ellsworth and Umberto Nobile, Amundsen flew over the North Pole. ... In 1928, while attempting to rescue a later Nobile expedition, Amundsen...
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Roald Amundsen and the 1925 North Pole Expedition | HistoryNet  The 1925 expedition to fly over the North Pole was led by renowned ... The Dorniers, simply named N24 and N25 after Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth in 1924. ... 'Hobby had already given up trying to be a boat,' Amundsen wrote later.
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Who Discovered the North Pole? | History | Smithsonian  Peary, for his part, made another attempt to reach the North Pole in 1905-06, his ... After fixing your position at 90 degrees northwhere all directions point ... For days, Cook wrote, he and his companions struggled through a violent ... A few days lateron April 6, 1909at the end of an exhausting day's march, Henson,...
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Gyroscope dictionary definition | gyroscope defined - YourDictionary  a wheel mounted in a set of rings so that its axis of rotation is free to turn in any ... is turned: gyroscopes are used in gyrocompasses and to keep moving ships, ... and thereby maintain its orientation regardless of any movement of the base. ... Vs. Accelerometer A gyroscope is used to establish the relationship of the device to...
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Magnetic Pole Shift May Be Underway - Rense  The Geological Survey of Canada keeps track of this motion by periodically carrying .... The earth acts like a huge bar magnet whose poles lie close to the north and south ... Today, the north magnetic pole is located near Ellef Ringnes Island in...
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1912 Book Reviews of A Negro Explorer at The North Pole  1912 Book Reviews of A Negro Explorer at The North Pole - The New York Times ... "Admiral Peary's assistant in the discovery of the North Pole has shown that he can write entertainingly as well as work efficiently upon arctic expeditions. ... "Many books have been written to commemorate a smaller event than a visit to the...
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DIO vol. 10 - DIO, The International Journal of Scientific History  Dec 16, 2003 ... ery of data exploding Richard Byrd's 1926 North Pole fraud. ... Long-Secreted Actual 1926 Sextant Data (In-Flight Diary) ... How Far North Did the Airplane Get? .... claims to the N.Pole were fakes, thus, Amundsen was first there. ...... Byrd going a total of over 2000 mi in his 15h1/2, which whisks his 85 mph...
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Poles, Magnetic and Geographiac - Dictionary definition of Poles ...  Today, the north magnetic pole is located near Ellef Ringnes Island in northern Canada. The magnetic south pole lies in Antarctica, near Vostok. It also appears...
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Earth Magnetic Field (Geomagnetic Field) | Magnetic Poles  The field lines converge (point vertically downward) at the north magnetic pole and ... Magnetic poles experience long-term movement or secular variation, diurnal ... point toward geographic north pole nor does it point directly toward magnetic...
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North Pole - Wikipedia  The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole or Terrestrial North Pole, is defined as the point in the Northern Hemisphere where the Earth's axis of rotation meets its surface. The North Pole is the northernmost point on the Earth, lying diametrically .... In April 1895 the Norwegian explorers Fridtjof Nansen and Hjalmar...
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Modern Physics (1900-1960) - PhysicsLAB!  He set up the first ... model in which the atom was a sphere filled with a positively charged cloud (the ... He won the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the ... were deflected by a magnetic field and comparing it with how much they were .... Bohr was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to...
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Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett: First to Fly over the North Pole ...  Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett: First to Fly over the North Pole ... Exploring the Arctic by air was not exactly a new idea in 1926. ... Loaded with 52 men, two planes, survival gear, six-months' worth of rations and ... On the morning of May 4, the Fokker Trimotor, with Navy aviation pilot-mechanic Floyd Bennett at the...
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North Pole - Wikipedia  The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole or Terrestrial North Pole, is defined as the point in the Northern Hemisphere where the Earth's axis of rotation meets its surface. The North Pole is the northernmost point on the Earth, lying diametrically ... The North Pole is at the center of the Northern Hemisphere.
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jeopardy/1606_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  Number: 8. SCIENCE CLASS | [Here comes Bill Nye, The Science Guy] The north pole on a bar magnet will attract this pole on another bar magnet | South pole.