artificial horizon

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Inspired by a child's spinning top toy, Serson wondered if he could create an artificial horizon - something that would stay level, even as a ship lurched and swayed around it.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2019

The entire zone which defined the landscape of my life was now bounded by a continuous artificial horizon, formed by the raised parapets and embankments of the motorways and their access roads and interchanges.

From The Guardian • Jul. 4, 2014

Its instrument panel, with more than 30 dials including the invaluable "artificial horizon," offered practically every known aid to navigation.

From Time Magazine Archive

For ascertaining arrival at the Pole, a sextant giving an artificial horizon on a bubble of mercury, the invention of Flyer Byrd, was used.

From Time Magazine Archive

These errors and rates were found by lieutenant Flinders, from equal altitudes taken with a sextant on a stand, and using an artificial horizon of quicksilver.

From A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 by Flinders, Matthew