Anschütz-Kaempfe Installs a Gyrocompass onto a German Battleship
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Science and Technology Series
- Categories: Science, Military History, Technology, Inventions
- Subcategories: Scientists, Inventors, Engineering, Engineers
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, German History
- Geographical Location: Germany
- Date: 1906
Article abstract: Anschütz-Kaempfe designed and manufactured the first practical gyroscopic compass, a north-seeking device operating independent of the earth’s magnetic field and capable of detecting changes in the orientation of a moving vehicle.
Summary of Event
The invention of the gyrocompass, a major step in the development of modem navigational instrumentation, followed naturally from the revolutionary progress in transportation technology that had taken place during the nineteenth century.
Although complex in mathematical detail, the...
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