Word: gyros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...continuing problem. Because of friction in the bearings of their spinning wheels, they tend to drift slowly away from the proper direction, and so give false readings. This annoying weakness may soon be corrected. Scientists at Republic Aviation Corp. are hard at work for the U.S. Navy developing a gyro with no wheels, no bearings, and no friction at all. Its only moving parts will be subatomic protons...
...monitor shows red. Circuitry reads out of continuity. Gyro out of specs on countdown group...
...accuracy was no longer good enough. A master standard must be at least ten times more accurate than the practical measuring systems that are derived from it, and modern industry began to call for tolerances expressed in millionths of an inch. An error of this infinitesimal order in a gyro guidance system might send a space probe to the wrong planet, millions of miles off the track...