Gyroscope
GYROSCOPE s. (Gr. guros, circle; skopéô, I watch). Phys. A device that is used to demonstrate the existence of the diurnal rotation of the earth: the gyroscope was developed in 1852 by Foucault. The simplest form of gyroscope essentially consists of a disk rotating on pivots in a circle, and bearing on one side, on the line extending its axis, a rod with a conical depression underneath, to hold the tip of a vertical …Read more »
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