128 YEAR OLD Torpedo Gyroscopic Guidance Unit

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THE DEVIL'S DEVICE! - 128 YEAR OLD Torpedo Gyroscopic Guidance Unit BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE @ 20,000rpm
This is an extremely rare original example of the Ludwig Obry patent gyroscope from 1895. Built in Fiume, Austria for the infamous Whitehead torpedo, this gyroscope kept the torpedo that it was installed in running straight toward its intended target, which revolutionized warfare. Torpedoes could now actually hit the ships they were aimed at! The addition of the gyroscope to the torpedo made it so effective in fact, that it was coined "The devil's device". The design and manufacture of this device wouldn't have been possible without the advent of the industrial revolution. The cocking key is used, with great effort, to use the mainspring as a sort of "battery" that stores the force that I was exerting into potential energy. When fired, this potential energy is transferred into kinetic energy as the spring drives the main gear and spins up the flywheel of the gyroscope to an…