Examples of gyrocompass in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web His submarine tumbled flailing into the water, its gyrocompass already broken. — Chieko Tsuneoka, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2021 Among the downstream effects of the steam-engine malfunction was the failure of the gyrocompass, the principal tool that the Palau’s navigation team relied upon. — Annie Murphy Paul, Wired, 15 June 2021 Without the gyrocompass, the team had to manually ascertain the position of the ship, relying on bearings taken from multiple landmarks on shore. — Annie Murphy Paul, Wired, 15 June 2021 When Perry was writing, gyrocompasses were cutting-edge, immature technology. — Frank Wilczek, WSJ, 13 Sep. 2018 The first of these is the EM3000 multi-beam sonar — a portable hydrographic mapping system consisting of a transducer, motion sensor, gyrocompass, and navigation system. — Louise Knapp, WIRED, 27 Feb. 2001

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