Those two metal spheres are not decoration, they are Kelvin’s balls, part of a precise system that counteracts magnetic errors caused by steel hulls. This explains how permanent and induced magnetism ...
THE subject of this lecture is the gyrostatic compass, often called the gyro-compass. An engineer of my acquaintance was asked if he under-stood what a gyro-compass was, and he replied, “Of course I ...
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