A gyroscope is a device consisting of a rapidly spinning wheel or disk mounted so that its axis can turn freely in all directions. As the axis turns the wheel remains stationary. Gyroscopes can be ...

Grab the kids and give this paper gyroscope a try ... Combine the inner and outer parts using a paper clip as the axis and you’re ready to go. Pull hard on a bit of floss wound around the ...

The gyro wheel on an airplane’s turn indicator, driven by a stream of air to spin as fast as 10,000 revolutions per minute, imparts a stabilized reference line, or axis, against which rotations ...