Gyroscope
Gyroscopes were envisioned by many as solutions to stability problems.

Some have suggested shifting weights, flowing mercury, and swinging pendulums; but none of these is of the least value, on account of the swaying action which has always to be encountered. A pendulum could not be depended upon for working machinery on board a ship, and the same laws apply to an airship. We have but one means at our disposal, and that is the gyroscope. When a gyroscope is spun at a very high velocity on a vertical axis, with the point of support very much above the center of gyration, it has a tendency to maintain a vertical axis; a horizontal or swinging motion of its support will not cause it to swing like a pendulum. It therefore becomes possible by its use to maintain an airship on an even keel.[2]
The Sperry Gyroscope Company notably developed several systems using gyroscopes.
Lawrence Burst Sperry, quoted in the 1918 Textbook of Military Aeronautics (pp. 25–27), explained the special usefulness of gyroscopes (and Sperry autopilot system) for nighttime flying and bombing. "The gyroscopic apparatus is capable of staying within one-quarter of one degree to the true horizontal. A sensitive aeroplane is held, through the intermediary of the servo motor and follow-up system, within three quarters of one degree of the position of this gyroscopic plane."
Enclosing categories | Stability |
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Keywords | Military, Navigation, Steam, USPC 74/5, CPC Y10T74/12 |
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This wiki has 94 patents in category "Gyroscope".
Other techtypes related to Gyroscope: USPC 74/5
Patents in category Gyroscope
- Patent FR-1892-217128.1 (English title: cert of addition to the patent taken, 1_ October 1891, for a gyroscopic rudder, Inventors: Backman)
- Patent GB-1908-21656 (English title: Improvement in air-ships, Inventors: Russell Thayer)
- Patent GB-1909-20962 (English title: Improved Flying Machine, Inventors: Adalbert Plaček)
- Patent BE-1907-199917 (English title: Application of the gyroscope to the stabilization of airplanes, Inventors: Andre-Alcide Bilard)
- Patent DE-1892-64148 (English title: Airship-gyroscope?, Inventors: Ernst Luck)
- Patent US-1897-596231 (English title: Flying-Machine, Inventors: James Richardson)
- Patent GB-1903-27212 (English title: Gyrostats Imparting Stability to otherwise Unstable Bodies, Structures or Vehicles, Inventors: Louis Brennan)
- Patent US-1907-859274 (English title: Flying machine, Inventors: John Holmes Wilson)
- Patent FR-1907-380098 (English title: Airship equilibrium system, Inventors: Louis Blériot)
- Patent FR-1907-374494 (English title: Gyroscopic control, Inventors: Louis Blériot)
- Patent FR-1908-377174.8770 (English title: Steering system, Inventors: Louis Blériot)
- Patent FR-1908-393597 (English title: Instrument for determining the direction of movement of air vehicles)
- Patent US-1908-889062 (English title: Flying machine, Inventors: Francis Raymond Sweeny)
- Patent GB-1908-2588 (English title: Improvements in or relating to balancing and steering apparatus, Inventors: Louis Blériot)
- Patent US-1908-887443 (English title: Dirigible balloon, Inventors: Russell Thayer)
- Patent GB-1907-17156 (English title: Hydro- and Aeroplane Boats, Inventors: Enrico Forlanini)
- Patent FR-1907-392977.9666 (English title: First cert. to add. to a patent for aerial locomotion, Inventors: Adrien-Edmond Martinot)
- Patent FR-1907-392977 (English title: Machine for aerial locomotion, Inventors: Adrien-Edmond Martinot)
- Patent FR-1909-397500 (English title: Mechanical assurance of airplane's transversal equlibrium, Inventors: Georges-Henri-Marius Canton • Pierre-Georges Unné)
- Patent GB-1909-12256 (English title: Gyroscopic propeller angling, Inventors: Augustus Moore Herring)
- Patent FR-1909-397449 (English title: Automatic airplane stabilizer, Inventors: Louis Marmonier)
- Patent FR-1909-403429 (English title: Aircraft, complex, featuring variably independent gyroscopically-stabilized propellers, Inventors: Augustus Moore Herring)
- Patent MX-1909-10000 (English title: A machine for flying, called an 'Aerogyroscope', Inventors: Francisco Pérez Polo)
- Patent FR-1908-392977.10010 (English title: Apparatus of aerial locomotion, Inventors: Adrien-Edmond Martinot)
- Patent FR-1908-393976 (English title: Airplane with automatic balance, Inventors: Louis-Adolphe Hayot)
- Patent FR-1908-401308 (English title: gyroscopic apparatus for aerial navigation, Inventors: Hippolyte Chevron • Jacques Ravelli)
- Patent GB-1909-25453 (English title: Gyroscope for operating planes, wings, or rudders of aerial machines, Inventors: John Francis Frederick Whale Ure)
- Patent US-1909-942691 (English title: Gyroscopic aeroplane, Inventors: Sydney S Williams)
- Patent FR-1908-401308.10953 (English title: Apparatus with gyroscopes for aerial navigation, Inventors: Hippolyte Chevron • Jacques Ravelli)
- Patent FR-1908-401308.11387 (English title: Apparatus with gyroscopes for aerial navigation, Inventors: Hippolyte Chevron • Jacques Ravelli)
- Patent FR-1909-410140 (English title: Method and mechanisms for automatically stabilizing, steering in flight, and facilitating the takeoff of flying machines, Inventors: Gustav Mees)
- Patent FR-1910-406466 (English title: Device using gyroscope and electricity to maintain longitudinal and transverse balance of aircraft, Inventors: Paul-Louis-Antoine Regnard)
- Patent FR-1909-410140.12828 (English title: Method and mechanisms for automatically stabilizing, steering in flight, and facilitating the takeoff of flying machines, Inventors: Gustav Mees)
- Patent FR-1909-410140.12830 (English title: Method and mechanisms for automatically stabilizing, steering in flight, and facilitating the takeoff of flying machines, Inventors: Gustav Mees)
- Patent FR-1910-410140.12452 (English title: Method and mechanisms for automatically stabilizing, steering in flight, and facilitating the takeoff of flying machines, Inventors: Gustav Mees)
- Patent FR-1909-410140.12827 (English title: Method and mechanisms for automatically stabilizing, steering in flight, and facilitating the takeoff of flying machines, Inventors: Gustav Mees)
- Patent FR-1910-410140.13073 (English title: Method and mechanisms for automatically stabilizing, steering in flight, and facilitating the takeoff of flying machines, Inventors: Gustav Mees)
- Patent BE-1910-228539 (English title: Gyroscopic stabilizer pertinent to airplane wings, Inventors: Edmund Sparmann)
- Patent FR-1910-407917 (English title: Improvements to airplanes, Inventors: Alfonso Guadagnini)
- Patent FR-1909-406099 (English title: Hydrodynamic level safety system for airplanes and other aeronautical devices, Inventors: Fernand Nouailhac-Pioch)
- Patent FR-1910-429307.14832 (English title: Improvements in airplanes, Inventors: Joseph Boisseau)
- Patent FR-1910-435166 (English title: Gyrostat for lift, static vertical ascent and horizontal propulsion, Inventors: Léon-Frédéric Granier)
- Patent FR-1911-427196 (English title: Stability system either automatic or commanded via irreversible gyroscopic pendulum of axis support, Inventors: Yves-Paul-Gaston Le Prieur)
- Patent GB-1910-19779 (English title: Automatic Stabilisers for Aeroplanes, Inventors: Paul-Louis-Antoine Regnard)
- Patent GB-1911-2904 (English title: Gyroscopic stabilizing propellers to facilitate the ascent and landing of flying machines, Inventors: Gustav Mees)
- Patent GB-1911-15576 (English title: Improvements in or connected with Flying Machines, Inventors: Elof Herman Medén)
- Patent FR-1911-434401 (English title: Improvements in airplanes, actually improvements applicable to the helicopter-hybrid described in an earlier patent, Inventors: Joseph Boisseau)
- Patent GB-1910-25749 (English title: A Method of, and Apparatus for, Automatically Steadying and Controlling the Elevation of Flying Machines, and Facilitating the Starting and Landing thereof, Inventors: Gustav Mees)
- Patent GB-1910-30210 (English title: Improvements in or relating to Flying Machines, Inventors: Joseph Emery Bissell)
- Patent FR-1911-367962.14310 (English title: Aviator, Inventors: Joseph Gachet)
- Patent FR-1910-430552.14548 (English title: Stabilization devices for aeroplanes and dirigibles, Inventors: Édouard Tarron)
- Patent FR-1909-420315.14594 (English title: Aviation, Inventors: Jean-Jacques-Élie Farcot)
- Patent FR-1911-425728 (English title: Application of the gyroscope to the automatic control of transversal and longitudinal airplane stability, Inventors: Robert Esnault-Pelterie)
- Patent GB-1910-24352 (English title: Improvements relating to aeroplanes and other aerial vessels, Inventors: John Francis Frederick Whale Ure)
- Patent FR-1911-433139 (English title: Gyroplane, Inventors: André Dumoulin • Auguste Jacquin • Eugène Farnier)
- Patent GB-1910-27871 (English title: Improvements in Apparatus for Maintaining the Equilibrium of and for Steering Aerial or other Vehicles, Inventors: Edmund Sparmann)
- Patent FR-1910-423068 (English title: Gyroscopic apparatus of stability for airplanes, Inventors: Edmund Sparmann)
- Patent US-1908-1009017 (English title: Balancing and steering apparatus, equilibrium achieved via gyroscope, Inventors: Louis Blériot)
- Patent BE-1911-01-19 Dumoulin et Jacquin et Farnier (Inventors: André Dumoulin • Auguste Jacquin • Eugène Farnier)
- Patent GB-1911-29117 (English title: Improvements in or relating to Aeronautical Machines, stability furthered by way of a gyroscope, Inventors: Adolphe-François-Joseph Doutre)
- Patent US-1912-1033710 (English title: Aeroplane balancing and controlling means, Inventors: John J. Lauer)
- Patent US-1912-1040089 (English title: Automatic stabilizer for aeroplanes, Inventors: Eugene Yeamans)
- Patent CA-1912-141177 (English title: Aeroplane, Inventors: George M. Ellis)
- Patent NZ-1912-31453 (English title: Aeronautical Machine, Inventors: Joseph Taylor)
- Patent GB-1911-23271 (English title: Stabilisation of Flying Machines, Inventors: Frederick William Lanchester)
- Patent FR-1911-401308.15491 (English title: Gyroscope device for aerial navigation, Inventors: Hippolyte Chevron • Jacques Ravelli)
- Patent FR-1911-435166.16545 (English title: Gyrostat for lift, static vertical ascent and horizontal propulsion, Inventors: Léon-Frédéric Granier)
- Patent FR-1912-446800 (English title: Airplane kite with gyroscopic stabilizer, Inventors: Carl Franz Hubert Hertel • Carl Wilhelm Paul)
- Patent GB-1912-16680 (English title: Aeroplane with Gyroscope, Inventors: Carl Wilhelm Paul)
- Patent FR-1911-435704 (English title: Flying machine, Inventors: Léon Lambert)
- Patent GB-1912-6818 (English title: Automatic Stabilisation of Aeroplanes and the like, Inventors: Louis Marmonier)
- Patent GB-1911-23194 (English title: Automatic Stabilizing Means for Aeroplanes and the like, Inventors: Louis Marmonier)
- Patent FR-1911-436026 (English title: Automatic stabilizer group for airplanes, Inventors: Louis Marmonier)
- Patent US-1913-1065263 (English title: Aeroplane steering and stabilizing mechanism, Inventors: Gustav Mees)
- Patent FR-1913-461164 (English title: Airplane equipped with a stabilizer gyroscope, Inventors: Guido Kolb)
- Patent FR-1912-435166.17806 (English title: Gyrostat for lift, static vertical ascent and horizontal propulsion, Inventors: Léon-Frédéric Granier)
- Patent US-1913-1050153 (English title: Automatic stabilizer for aeroplanes and the like, Inventors: Louis Marmonier)
- Patent AT-1909-61611 (English title: Gyro stabilizer for aircraft or other unstable body, Inventors: Edmund Sparmann)
- Patent FR-1912-450466.18100 (English title: Helicopter, or more properly a gyroscope preventing the nacelle from rotating with the propellers, Inventors: Armand-Jean-Auguste Deperdussin)
- Patent US-1910-1066860 (English title: Automatic stabilizer for aerial vehicles or other moving bodies, Inventors: Edmund Sparmann)
- Patent US-1911-1063432 (English title: Flying-machine, Inventors: Edward D. Green)
- Patent HU-1912-63738 (English title: Airplane kite with gyroscopic stabilizer, Inventors: Carl Franz Hubert Hertel • Carl Wilhelm Paul)
- Patent FR-1914-472492 (English title: A gyroscope suspended from a universal joint which by way of pistons and a servo-moteur has the stability apparatus match the angle of inclination without delay, Inventors: Tibor Melczer • Pál Vágó • Egyed Rudnai)
- Patent HU-1913-63841 (English title: Stabilization equipment, gyroscope suspended from a universal joint which by way of pistons and a servo-moteur has the stability apparatus match the angle of inclination without delay, Inventors: Tibor Melczer • Pál Vágó • Egyed Rudnai)
- Patent CH-1912-64126 (English title: Airplane with gyroscopic mechanism of stability, Inventors: Carl Wilhelm Paul • Carl Franz Hubert Hertel)
- Patent DK-1912-18589 (English title: Kite aeroplane with gyroscope, Inventors: Carl Franz Hubert Hertel • Carl Wilhelm Paul)
- Patent GB-1915-10377 (English title: Automatic Means for Stabilising Aircraft, Inventors: Elmer Ambrose Sperry)
- Patent GB-1913-18515 (English title: Improvements in Flying Machines with Gyroscopic Steadying Devices, Inventors: Guido Kolb)
- Patent GB-1915-9370 (English title: Improvents in Aeroplanes and the like, further developments in automatic stability, Inventors: Sam Leonard Walkden)
- Patent GB-1916-125090 (English title: Automatic Means for Stabilising Aircraft, Inventors: Elmer Ambrose Sperry)
- Patent US-1918-1279133 (English title: Stabilizer, Inventors: Richard McMyers)
- Patent GB-1916-281735 (English title: Improvements relating to aerial navigation, Inventors: Louis Brennan)
- Patent US-1919-1309489 (English title: Double-Gyro Inclinometer, Inventors: Lawrence Burst Sperry)
- Patent US-1914-1368226 (English title: Aeroplane-stabilizer, Inventors: Elmer A. Sperry)
References
Links
- "Gyroscopes on Aeroplanes" (Flight, 13 April 1912, p. 338), discussing a forum on the subject held by the Aeronautical Society with distinguished lecturers including T. W. K. Clarke.