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
All the dials and gauges of a real airplane cockpit are displayed on the bottom half of the screen, including altimeter, artificial horizon, airspeed indicator and two compasses.
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
Measuring low angles by reflexion.--an ordinary artificial horizon is useless for very low angles.
From The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries by Galton, Francis, Sir
