Word: schuler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born. To Patrice Munsel, 34, airy coloratura soprano who has divided her talents among the Met (La Périchole, Die Fledermaus), the movies (Melba), TV (The Patrice Munsel Show), and Las Vegas, and Robert C. Schuler, 38, TV producer: a second daughter, fourth child; in Forest Hills, N.Y. Name: Nicole. Weight...
Born. To Patrice Munsel, 33, Metropolitan Opera soprano turned television star (The Patrice Munsel Show), and Robert Schuler, 42, TV producer: their second son, third child; prematurely, in Formentor, Majorca, Spain. Name: Scott Carlos. Weight...
...spin axis in relation to the "fixed" stars-or any other points of reference-no matter on what path it is carried by the motion of a vehicle or the rotation of the earth. Such a gyroscope is one element of Inertial Guidance. The other element is an electronic "Schuler pendulum" that always points toward the center of the earth, regardless of an aircraft's acceleration (speeding up or slowing down).* The unchanging gyroscope line and the line of the plumb bob, which tells which way is down, form an angle that changes as the plane follows the earth...
From the angle made by the platform and the Schuler-pendulum, corrected by a chronometer which allows for the earth's rotation, exact readings of a plane's (or missile's) latitude and longitude are made, then translated into instructions for the servomechanisms that operate the controls. (A variant of this layout, not described by Draper, uses similar gyros to fix position, radios continuously back to home base for flight instructions.) Throughout the flight, the control system also operates like a normal automatic pilot, making necessary minor corrections for pitch, yaw and roll...
...Maximilian Schuler, a German professor of applied mechanics, discovered in 1923 that acceleration would have no effect on a hypothetical pendulum the length of the earth's radius; the M.I.T. device simulates Schuler's effect electronically...