Arthur B. Reeve

Name: The Stolen War Secret — IV. The Gyroscope Aeroplane
Author: Arthur B. Reeve

The Stolen War Secret — IV. The Gyroscope Aeroplane (1914)

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“The Stolen War Secret — IV. The Gyroscope Aeroplane”, published in 1914, is a work by Arthur B. Reeve. It explores elements such as Sinclair, gyroscope and aeroplane.

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Arthur B. Reeve, The Stolen War Secret — IV. The Gyroscope Aeroplane (1914)

“ Westport Bay itself lay in a beautifully wooded, hilly country, and Sinclair’s house stood on an elevation, with a huge sweep of terraced lawn before it, running down to the water’s edge.
As we pulled up under the wide stone ivy-covered porte-cochère, Sinclair, who had been awaiting us anxiously after the receipt of a telegram from Burke, greeted us and led the way into his library, a large room crowded with curios and objects of art which he had collected on his travels in Latin-America.
Sinclair was a tall, lithe, wiry man with a seamed and furrowed face. ”

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Arthur B. Reeve, The Stolen War Secret — IV. The Gyroscope Aeroplane (1914)

“ Sinclair merely depressed a key.
⁠THE aeroplane rose under the unseen guidance of the wireless. Out she streaked from the run-way and shot up, up, up, with the flag flapping proudly from the upper plane. She swayed from side to side as the mechanism which operated the stabilizing by means of the ends of the planes, counteracting the puffs of wind from the land, did its work with an intelligence almost superior to that of man himself. ”

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Arthur B. Reeve, The Stolen War Secret — IV. The Gyroscope Aeroplane (1914)

“ That point, how ever, was at present at least of minor importance to Kennedy. Not only was it necessary but he was most interested in knowing about the wonderful contrivance of Sinclair’s which had called forth such ingenuity in order to get possession of it.
“Just what is your gyroscope aeroplane, Colonel?” he asked.
With the true spirit of the inventor, Sinclair was now all enthusiasm, and was prepared to talk of nothing else except this child of his brain.
“It is a crewless aeroplane,” he explained eagerly. ”

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Arthur B. Reeve, The Stolen War Secret — IV. The Gyroscope Aeroplane (1914)

“ As he directed, a mechanician wheeled the aeroplane out on the runway in front of the hangar.
“This is the gyroscope,” began Sinclair, pointing out a thing encased in an aluminum sheath which weighed, all told, perhaps fourteen or fifteen pounds.
“You understand,” he continued, “the gyroscope is really a flywheel mounted on gimbals and can turn on any of its axes so that it can assume any angle in space. When it’s at rest, like this, you can turn it easily. But when it is set revolving, it tends to persist always in the plane in which it was started rotating.” ”

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Arthur B. Reeve, The Stolen War Secret — IV. The Gyroscope Aeroplane (1914)

“ It is all done by merely paying attention to the signals and depressing the right key here, of a limited number.
“You see I have improved on all my predecessors—on Wilson and Gardner in England, Roberts in Australia, Wirth and Lirpa in Germany, Gabet in France, and Tesla, Edison, Sims, and the younger Hammond in our own country.”
“I should like to see a trial,” suggested Kennedy.
“I should be only too glad,” returned Sinclair.
He depressed a lever.
“Of course,” he observed, “you know that wireless power doesn’t operate the aeroplane. The wireless waves merely operate a system of relays. ”

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Arthur B. Reeve, The Stolen War Secret — IV. The Gyroscope Aeroplane (1914)

“ I had long since given up and had joined Burke in silent wonder. Not so with Kennedy. His mind ran along, if anything, ahead of Sinclair; and now and then he asked a question which elicited an answer that showed that Sinclair appreciated talking to him about his hobby.
“The idea,” went on Sinclair again, “is that of delayed contact. You understand, the machinery to propel and steer the aeroplane is always ready. ”

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Arthur B. Reeve, The Stolen War Secret — IV. The Gyroscope Aeroplane (1914)

“ When you turn the lock a slight sound is made when the proper number comes opposite the working-point. It can be heard sometimes by a sensitive ear, although it is imperceptible to most persons. But by using a microphone it is easy to hear the sounds which allow of opening the lock.”
“Well—I’ll—be—hanged!” gasped Sinclair.
⁠IT WAS difficult to determine whether Burke or Sinclair had been the more impressed by the seeming wizardry of Kennedy in discovering how the safe had been opened. ”

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Arthur B. Reeve, The Stolen War Secret — IV. The Gyroscope Aeroplane (1914)

“ That thing might carry enough of the most powerful explosive to blow up the locks of the Panama Canal, to send any of our super dreadnoughts to the bottom, if it were directed against us.
“In the hands of an enemy there is no telling what might not happen. ”

Arthur B. Reeve

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