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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 53508
USS Henderson (Transport # 1)
A close-up view of the two gyro stabilizing units being skidded
into the ship in dry dock at the Philadelphia Navy Yard in April
1917.
"Each of these units contains a wheel weighing 26 tons mounted
on a horizontal shaft lying in normal position athwartships.
The units are secured to the ship in the gudgeon bearings, the
trunions of which are visible on the top of each unit. This allows
each unit to turn or precess about a vertical axis to give the
spinning gyro rotors the second motion necessary to produce the
gyroscopic action to help stabilize the ship." (quoted from
the original 1917-vintage photo caption)
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27 April 2004