Talk:Gimbal

message: Exactly what is AS-XII? Is it supposed to be Apollo 13? The only references I can find to AS-XII are websites that are basically mirrors of Wikipedia. Jachim 04:39, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is AS-XII 

message: Gimbals are known from Tang times (http://www.art-and-archaeology.com/china/xian/fa13.html) or earlier, when they were used in Buddhist incense burners. Need a good historian of technology to expand this article. Gunth1u 02:57, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Probably should say instead "The first known description of the gimbal was by..." or something similar.  The references need to be checked first to establish exactly what they say. SpinningSpark 13:12, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  History of Gimbals 

message: We should incorprate an animated image such as this one::Image:Gyroscope operation.gif into the page to help illustrate the idea better. Jesse Crouch (talk) 20:54, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Animated image 

message: Where does the word gimbal come from?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.69.119.202 (talk) 00:24, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: From Latin "gemellus" (twin-like, Diminutive of geminus), to old French "jumel" and as a variant of late Middle English "gemel" and "gimmal" (twin, hinge, finger ring which can be divided into two rings) to late 16th century "gimbal" (a plural denoting connecting parts in machinery).--89.144.223.185 (talk) 13:44, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: See Jabberwocky -Wikipedia article for 1871 use of "gymbal" as a verb Jrgetsin (talk) 13:45, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ethymology 

message: Not a physicist. Believe heart lives in gimbals with many unique physiologic tethers. What does NASA have on this that can be imported to Wikipedia for an interesting encyclopedic article? --lbeben 01:35, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  heart gimbals 

message: I have rewritten the Gimbal lock page.
I have moved the material related to the gimbal lock problem from the Gimbal page to the Gimbal lock page. So, my apologies for having "stolen" some material from this page. But I think that at the end everything is clearer. Especially that some solutions for the gimbal lock problems in inertial navigation were absent from the original text.
Also, the current explanation of the gimbal lock was wrongly placed in the "aerospace" section. A gimbal lock can occur on a submarine too AFAIK, so I have merged "marine" and "aerospace" paragraphs here.
MathsPoetry (talk) 21:46, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gimbal lock 

message: Name the Picavet under References? See [] it stabilizes the mount of a camera horizontally, while the tethering line of a kite or balloon may move and  change its angle. --Helium4 (talk) 13:44, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picavet cross 

message: The intro of this article mentions "Cardan suspension" but totally fails to describe its meaning/significance in the article body, leaving a big "huh?" for the reader. Needs work. Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 16:03, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. SpinningSpark 11:59, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: History

message: I believe the animated graphic in the top right corner of this page represents a three-axis gimbal, not the "Illustration of a simple two-axis gimbal set; the center ring can be vertically fixed" labeled.  If the center right were vertically fixed, then it should be a two-axis gimbal.
199.115.189.190 (talk) 19:50, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Topic Animated Graphic 

message: Is there a way (or need) to mention the largest gimbal yet constructed, which had 2-meter bearings and was mounted on the GloMar Explorer in the 70s to support the Clementine recovery claw and the Russian submarine K-129 (more than 20,000 tons total? It is described by several of the engineers who designed & used it in the documentary "Azorian: The Raising of the K-129" (2010). Steve8394 (talk) 00:02, 5 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Largest gimbal?