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Show THE DRAIN OF THE TORPEDO It tins been stuted Hint much of the Japanese success In navul lights around Tort Arthur was due tn the Kyroioopo. Thin in a delicate nppa. ratlin for keeping a torpedo ntrnlght In Its course, even through a distance of .iiimi yniils. It In a small weighted wheel like object, carefully suspended on gymbols In the buoyuncy chamber of flie torpedo. Attached to Its axis is a "leel spring connected with the tooth gearing. A rod to the air lever nctunles II. When the lever la tnrown buck the spring in relcnsed, and the gyroscope spins around at the rate of 2.-11 revolutions a minute. In his biaik on "Torpedoes and Torpedo Vea- sels" I.leut. Armstrong of the Brltlab navy snya: "The gyroscope works a servomotor, servo-motor, actuating n pnlr of movable vertical rudders placed In recesses In the vertical Bus. These rudders, be It remembered, are therefore aupplo-nieatary aupplo-nieatary to tho small adjusted vertical rudders ordinarily titled., but which may be dlucardud If a gyroscope la being uaod. If now, the tc-"-to from ( . .. i' any cnttse, oxtornal or Internal, be deflected de-flected out of the lino nf tire, the gyro-cope, gyro-cope, by maintaining Its axial position posi-tion In the Hue of fire, acts on tho ervo-mntnr, and by means of the vortical vor-tical rudders steers the torpedo bck again to lis original direction." Thus the torpedo la endowed with a brain, so to speak, that directs Us course through the waters on Its mission mis-sion of death, |