11 APRIL 1914, Page 3

Dr. P. Schilowsky, as we read in the Times of

Wednesday, has constructed a model ship fitted with a stabilizing gyroscope. The model, which is six feet long, is to be placed in the Science Museum at South Kensington beside his mono.rail model. The gyroscope, which differs from the Schlick gyroscope for ships, annihilates the largest roll of the ship in one second. We wonder, however, whether the opera- tion of the gyroscope would not tend to weaken the ship by providing an artificial resistance to the force of the seas? A ship without a gyroscope, of course, yields to the seas.