gyrostat
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of gyrostat
Example Sentences
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If the fly-wheel be not in rotation, the experimenter can carry the arrangement about, and the fly-wheel and case move with it as if the gyrostat were merely216 an ordinary rigid body.
From Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work by Gray, Andrew
What's the matter with my home-made gyrostat and anemometer?
From Darkness and Dawn by England, George Allan
Round the case in the plane of the wheel is a projecting rim sharpened to an edge, on which the gyrostat can be supported in other experiments.
From Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work by Gray, Andrew
Then the gyrostat, mounted with its axis vertical on trunnions on a level with the fly-wheel, and resting on a wooden frame carried about by the professor!
From Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work by Gray, Andrew
Each of these is divided in the middle for the insertion of a gyrostat, the axis of which is pivoted on the adjacent ends of the two halves of the rod.
From Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work by Gray, Andrew
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