Lexicographical Neighbors of Gymbal
Literary usage of Gymbal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Spinning Tops: The "Operatives' Lecture" of the British Association Meeting by John Perry (1890)
"... engraved crosswise on the outer gymbal ring, FIG. 46. and try to discover if
it moves horizontally by means of a microscope with cross wires. ..."
2. Rudimentary Treatise on the Power of Water: As Applied to Drive Flour Mills by J. Glynn (1853)
"... instead of the bridge or centre rynd, has been introduced : a pair of " gymbal
rings" in a compact form are fitted to the spindle-head, and the stone is ..."
3. Transactions (1885)
"... is centred on the circumference of a gymbal ring which has a pointer and which
is pivoted on a second gymbal carried by the framework of the instrument, ..."
4. Hydraulic Power and Hydraulic Machinery by Henry Robinson (1904)
"forged steel gymbal, which will allow angular movement both in a vertical and
horizontal direction; the outer end is fitted with another forged steel gymbal ..."
5. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1905)
"The tube is embraced at C and D by gymbal rings fig. (2) where the steel points
EE' are closed on the tube, and the pivots FF rest at (D), fig. ..."
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