gyroscope

device for measuring or maintaining orientation and direction
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gyroscope

Summary

gyroscope ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,133 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • gyroscope is credited with the discovery of Léon Foucault[2].
  • gyroscope's image is recorded as Gyroskop.jpg[3].
  • gyroscope's GND ID is recorded as 4158614-1[4].
  • gyroscope's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85058127[5].
  • gyroscope's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11982033z[6].
  • gyroscope's subclass of is recorded as appliance[7].
  • gyroscope's subclass of is recorded as measuring instrument[8].
  • gyroscope's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00574969[9].
  • gyroscope's Commons category is recorded as Gyroscopes[10].
  • gyroscope's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 41855[11].
  • gyroscope's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1852-00-00T00:00:00Z[12].
  • gyroscope's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0c0_q[13].
  • gyroscope's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph216724[14].
  • gyroscope's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Gyroscopes[15].
  • gyroscope's Commons gallery is recorded as Gyroscope[16].
  • gyroscope's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 681.753[17].
  • gyroscope's location of creation is recorded as Paris[18].
  • gyroscope's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 1408759[19].
  • gyroscope's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[20].
  • gyroscope's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[21].
  • gyroscope's described by source is recorded as Sytin Military Encyclopedia[22].
  • gyroscope's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[23].
  • gyroscope's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work[24].
  • gyroscope's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 3[25].
  • gyroscope's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/gyroscope[26].

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Works and Contributions

gyroscope is credited with the discovery of Léon Foucault[2].

Why It Matters

gyroscope ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,133 views/month).[1] gyroscope has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] gyroscope is known by 44 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
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  10. [11] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . wikidata.org.
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  22. [23] . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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