Word: inertia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first man to bridle the principles inherent in the gyroscope. The gyroscope is a carefully balanced flywheel and gimbal assembly so mounted that when at rest it is free to turn in any direction. When spinning it has a quality known as "rigidity in space" or gyroscopic inertia. Turn or move the gyroscope mounting and the flywheel will continue to rotate in the same plane. This stability provides a known factor which can be used to determine or counteract all sorts of variables. Sperry Gyroscope Co. Inc. sells a gyrocompass which is standard equipment on most liners, gyrostabilizer to prevent...
Great majority of injuries, both minor and serious, received by people in automobile crashes are due to their being thrown forward against dashboard, windshield, steering wheel or seat by their own inertia when their car suddenly slams to a stop. Last week Major Alford Joseph ("Al") Williams, speed flyer of note and writer of ability (TIME, Jan. 11), proposed a simple remedy in his daily column in the Pittsburgh Press. Excerpt...
...smooth and protected harbor." now, after a year, he was not so sure. Said he: "If another crisis finds the American banking system disorganized and ineffective, the American citizenry . . . may . . . seize a short cut. . . . Certainly public opinion at such a time will have scant patience with past timidity and inertia of bankers, and with petty bickerings for power among official agencies...
...Orleans, Milwaukee, and wherever else they originally come from, to say nothing of New York and Washington where there is more need for their talents than in Boston and Providence. The fact that more than half of the graduates of New England colleges seek employment here shows an inertia and lack of originality which the gifted New England educational system should certainly have overcome...
...spontaneous effort to overcome the temporal inertia of the Astronomy Department, an anonymous Yardling last week dug into the dust, which covers the numerous idle clocks of the Astronomy building. Of four installed in each of the two classrooms to keep students posted on the quartet of "times" used in astronomy, only one was going, Eastern Standard Time. Someone had forgotten to, or how to set the others...