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In the 1940s engineers in Scotland designed a gyro that used a spinning flywheel on a universal (Hooke’s) joint (Figure 9.1). The gyro was surprisingly unstable, and Arnold and Maunder at the University of Edinburgh showed that the dynamic inertia effects of the gimbal in the universal joint were responsible.
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Lawrence, A. (1998). The Dynamically Tuned Gyroscope. In: Modern Inertial Technology. Mechanical Engineering Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1734-3_10
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