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.
Sure, we sleep because we are sleepy. But why do we get sleepy? And why after about 16 hours? Why not one hour, or 60 hours? It's not that the brain is resting. In fact, when we sleep, networks in the brain undergo very organised patterns of activity â and use almost as much energy as when we are awake.