Relativity Gyroscope Experiment ( B ) : Gyroscope Development
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The central element of the Stanford relativity experiment is a cryogenic gyroscope with a performance in space many orders of magnitude superior to that of conventional earth-boiind devices. In the early pllases of the program, a great deal of thought wa? given t o the problem of achieving the performance goal, and an entirely new gyro concept was developed by William Fairbank and Francis Everitt, bast:d on thc! application of cryogenic techniques to electrostatic gyroscopes. In paper VI.3( A) Francis Everitt hm given a history and overview of thc experiment. In this paper we describe the construction of the gyroscope, outline its development into an operational laboratory device, and present some of the results obtained with it. We also give a brief account of the torque analysis which demonstrates that it is feasible to make a gyroscope with the tlesired performance.
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