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

In addition to radio, both for beacon reception and conversation, the United Air Lines plane was equipped with rate-of-climb indicator, artificial horizon and directional gyro, helpful instruments which the Navy planes lacked.

From Time Magazine Archive

But it often happens in practice, that the artificial horizon cannot be used, and we are then reduced to the sea horizon, where the changes of refraction are always the greatest.

From Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island by Hall, Basil