A team of engineers from French and German companies has come together to improve the safety of ships at sea with a solid-state, electrostatic compass that can find true North without ever needing ...

IT was about eighty years ago that Foucault carried out his ingenious experiments with the gyroscope, but for half a century the apparatus had no practical application. It has now, however, been ...

The compass—oldest known navigating instrument—has been revolutionized. Last week Bendix Aviation Corp. announced a new automatic compass that makes the old magnetic needle* look as obsolete as a ...