mechanical precision of Foucault's gyroscope allowed this to be proven clearly to the scientific establishment, and the gyroscope became a widely popular...

A gyroscope (from Ancient Greek γῦρος gŷros, "round" and σκοπέω skopéō, "to look") is a device used for measuring or maintaining orientation and angular...

following year he used (and named) the gyroscope as a conceptually simpler experimental proof (see Foucault's gyroscope experiment). In 1855, he received the...

The Foucault pendulum or Foucault's pendulum is a simple device named after French physicist Léon Foucault, conceived as an experiment to demonstrate the...

Early gyroscopes were used to demonstrate the principle, most notably the Foucault's gyroscope experiment. Prior to the invention of the gyroscope, it had...

Measurement Speed of light 1851 Foucault pendulum Léon Foucault Demonstration Earth's rotation 1852 Foucault's gyroscope Léon Foucault Demonstration Earth's rotation...

Austrian Navy who invented a gyroscopic device for steering a torpedo in 1895. The gyroscope had been invented by Leon Foucault in 1851, but industry ignored...

Lord Brougham's Optical Experiments. Journal of Science 1854 On Foucault's Gyroscope. . Journal of Science and Philosophical Magazine 1856 Life of Young...

experiment to demonstrate the Earth's rotation, similar to the Foucault pendulum and to gyroscope devices. Arthur Compton (Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927) published...

and Hans Thirring) is a relativistic correction to the precession of a gyroscope near a large rotating mass such as the Earth. It is a gravitomagnetic...

produced gyro attachments that can be mounted on normal theodolites. A gyroscope is mounted in a sphere, lined with Mu-metal to reduce magnetic influence...

by Anders Persson of various aspects of the coriolis effect, including Foucault's Pendulum and Taylor columns. The coriolis effect in meteorology PDF-file...

later held by the Royal Astronomical Society of South Australia A Foucault gyroscope A Gregorian telescope, and induced his good friend A. W. Dobbie to...

to the spin of an elementary particle or the rotation of a macroscopic gyroscope and relates the angular velocity of the spin of a particle following a...

and elaborated on the "conservation of moments". In 1852 Léon Foucault used a gyroscope in an experiment to display the Earth's rotation. William J. M...

hyperbolic funnel wishing well. Newton's Cradle Pulleys Spinning Platform Gyroscope Foucault Pendulum Torsion Pendulum Unequal Arm Balance Coupled Pendulums AC...

needed] In the documentary Behind the Curve, Bob Knodel uses a ring-laser gyroscope to attempt to prove that the earth does not rotate. The results instead...

rotation Flywheel Flywheel energy storage Momentum wheel Spinning top Gyroscope Gyrocompass Precession Nutation Particle swarm optimization Self-propelled...

Foucault, most famously the Foucault pendulum for Foucault's 1851 demonstration.[citation needed] Other projects with Foucault included the gyroscope...

acceleration. In 1851, Jean Bernard Léon Foucault showed that the plane of oscillation of a pendulum, like a gyroscope, tends to stay constant regardless of...

(an effect similar to that shown by a Foucault pendulum). This change in orientation is resisted by the gyroscopic forces exerted by the flywheel's angular...

algebraic equations. Poinsot was a contemporary of Léon Foucault, who invented the gyroscope and whose pendulum experiments provided incontrovertible...

experience physical phenomena and solve problems using interactive exhibits. Gyroscopes, levers, pendulums, the Venturi effect, gears.... these are just some...

discovered by Faraday as the explanation of Arago's phenomenon to be dubbed Foucault's currents is not clear. If anyone is entitled to the honour of having the...

motor, Galvani's muscle-electricity connection, Volta's battery, and gyroscopes. 16 6 "Echoes of the Past" Mike Slee James Burke ? The past in this case...

Mach. The hypothesis attempted to explain how rotating objects, such as gyroscopes and spinning celestial bodies, maintain a frame of reference. The proposition...

the Sagnac effect for their operation, such as ring laser gyroscopes and fiber optic gyroscopes, are capable of extreme levels of sensitivity. The time...

direct suction tracheotomy tube Jean Bernard Léon Foucault (1819–1868), France – Foucault pendulum, gyroscope, eddy current Benoît Fourneyron (1802–1867),...

purging, hot and cold baths, mercury pills, a "tranquilizing chair" and gyroscope. A similar reform was carried out in Italy by Vincenzo Chiarugi, who discontinued...

preventing premature ignition. French physicist Léon Foucault (1819–1868) makes the first gyroscope for scientific use Copley Medal: Alexander von Humboldt...