Perhaps the greatest invention to make for the safe navigation of ocean-going ships since the introduction of the sextant and wireless, has been the gyroscopic-compass. Since the first introduction of ...

The compass—oldest known navigating instrument—has been revolutionized. Last week Bendix Aviation Corp. announced a new automatic compass that makes the old magnetic needle* look as obsolete as a ...

Raytheon Anschütz has now introduced new features for its Standard 22 gyro compass. Among the new features the most important improvements are independent ...

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 ...