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"I've put side fin-keels to correct that," Tom explained. But still his father was not satisfied. "I'd rather you had kept the gyroscope," he said, and the time was to come when Tom Swift wished that himself.
"I'll soon be back, dad," he said in as cheerful a tone as he could assume, "and I'll help you finish your gyroscope." "I hope you will, Tom," and then, with a pressure of his son's hand, Mr. Swift turned away and went into the house, closing the door after him. The first part of the trip to New York was rather a silent one, no one caring to talk much.
"Well, there are many who might have done it," the machinist went on. "Some of the mechanics you have discharged for not doing their work properly might have done it. But the fellow I suspect is that young army officer who got huffy because you wouldn't explain all about your equalizing gyroscope, or stabilizer." "Oh you mean him?" gasped the aviator. "That's the man," declared Jack.
"I am sorry," went on the young millionaire, "but I am going to use Mr. Vardon's gyroscope." "Then you may as well give up all hope of winning the prize!" sneered Larson. "You are a very foolish young man. Vardon is a dreamer, a visionary inventor who will never amount to anything. His gyroscope is a joke, and " "I am sorry you think so," interrupted the aviator.
I'll show them yet that my application of the gyroscope is patentable. Delanne will put me into 'interference' in the patent office, as the lawyers call it, will he? Well, I filed a 'caveat' over a year and a half ago. If I'm wrong, he's wrong, and all gyroscope patents are wrong, and if I'm right, by George, I'm first in the field. That's so, isn't it?" he appealed to Kennedy.
Rotation, if swift enough, creates amazing stability: he had seen how the gyroscope can balance at apparently impossible angles. Perhaps it was so of the mind. If it twirls at high speed it can lean right out over the abyss without collapse. But the stationary mind he thought of Bishop Borzoi must keep away from the edge. Try to force it to the edge, it raves in panic.
The doomed space ship gyroscope still keeping the ray pointed Earthward describing an erratic course, was shooting farther upward into the stratosphere, propelled by the ghastly ray which, now no longer controlled by Wang Li, drove the space ship madly through the outer cold.
You see the European war has called for the use of a large number of aeroplanes, and as the pilots of them frequently have to fight, and so can not give their whole attention to the machines, some form of automatic stabilizer is needed to prevent them turning turtle, or going off at a wrong tangent. "So I have been working out a sort of modified gyroscope, and it seems to answer the purpose.
"What is the gyroscope?" asked Dick. "It is an invention of mine, and one over which Lieutenant Larson and I had some argument," said Mr. Vardon.
As I placed both hands on the case of the apparently frail little instrument, he added, "You remember how easily you moved it just a moment ago." I pressed down with all my might. Then I literally raised myself off my feet, and my whole weight was on the gyroscope. That uncanny little instrument seemed to resent yes, that's the word, resent my touch. It was almost human in the resentment, too.
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