gyroscope's

Updated: August 17, 2026

This may have happened either in the earth tremor, which no doubt was caused by the advance of the terrific world-balance, or when the electric power, though diffused and turned by Yva's insulated body, struck the great gyroscope's travelling foot with sufficient strength, not to shift it indeed on to the right-hand path as Oro had designed, but still to cause it to stagger and even perhaps to halt for the fraction of a second.

Henry Rider Haggard - When the World Shook; being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot