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Show . oo GYRESCOPES TO STEADY VESSELS New York, Sept. 23. Great secrec. is being maintained at tho Brooklyn .Navy Yard regarding a series of gyroscope gyro-scope tests which bavo been going on aboard the destroyer "Yorden here for several months It is said that naval officials hope by the use of tho contrivances, con-trivances, to solvo the problom of preventing tho rolling of a war vessel ves-sel while under way, or in a heavy sea. MPe success ol me experiment, it is asserted would mean a considerable consider-able increase in the -speed and usefulness useful-ness of the smaller naval craft un-dor un-dor battle conditions. Tho two gyroscopes are placed on tho main deck forward, ono on the port side and the other on the starboard. star-board. , They are about four feet in diameter. The type is tho invention o an aviatress and 1b said to be far more active and thereforo superior in effect to' the so-called "passive" gyroscopes. gyro-scopes. A torpedo boat destroyer like tho Worden has an angle stability of ninety degreos. In the great storm last Christmas, in which a fleet of torpedo boats was tossed about and badly damaged on tho way to Cuba, one of the boats Is said to have rolled 110 degrees. She dipped -water with her smokestacks. The Worden is 248 feet long, 23 feet. 10 inches wide and has a speed of 29.SS knots, fin |