3. The apparatus of claim 1 and in addition a support for the rate-of-turn sensor, said support being adapted to be fixedly attached to the ship and having adjustment means for the plane of the rate-of-turn sensor. 4. rate-of-turn sensor, said sensor being mounted in a fixed position relative to the ship's structure with its response axis parallel to the vertical axis of the ship and generating a signal representative of the rate-of-turn of the ship,
March 21, 2014 Daven Hiskey 7 comments. The practice of saying âoâclockâ is simply a remnant of simpler times when clocks werenât very prevalent and people told time by a variety of means, depending on where they were and what references were available.onus Fact: 1  The word âclockâ is thought to have originally derived from the Medieval Latin âclocca,â meaning âbell,â referencing the ringing of the bells on early town clocks, which would let everyone in a community know what time it was.
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