The Gyroscope and its Applications

Abstract

THE applications of the gyroscope to marine and aeronautical problems during the Second World War have been so many that pre-war treatises have become out of date. This book is an endeavour to bring the subject up to date, with a minimum amount of mathematics. The subject is considered in three sections, each by a different author. The first section deals with the simple theory of the gyroscope, and with its main properties; appendixes are concerned, chiefly, with the errors of the gyroscopic compass. The second and third sections treat of the marine and aeronautical applications respectively, and each is self-complete. Since much of the material of these two sections is new and practical, they are of more interest than the first; they contain scarcely any mathematics; they are illustrated by excellent diagrams and photographs, and make exceedingly interesting, though very technical and at times difficult, reading.

The Gyroscope and its Applications

Edited By Dr. Martin Davidson. Section 1: General Theory, by Dr. M. Davidson; Section 2: Marine Applications, G. C. Saul; Section 3: Aeronautical Applications, by J. A. Wells and A. P. Glenny. Pp. 256. (Lodon: Hutchinson's Scientific and Technical Publications, 1946.) 21s. net.