Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe - Richtungsweiser ohne Spuren

Abstract: "In about 1900, Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe (1872-1931) attracted great attention with his plans to travel to the North Pole by submarine. Among the problems entailed by this project was the fact that a magnetic compass in a steel casing would fail to function properly. Experiments were carried out with the aim of developing a gyroscope, an object that was also of interest to the German Navy. The initial model was rejected by the Navy in 1904, but nevertheless led to a comprehensive fundamental patent. As recent research has shown, Anschütz-Kaempfe and his firm succeeded in presenting a meridian (i.e. geographically northward-pointing) gyrocompass in 1908, having competed closely with companies such as Siemens and Hartmann & Braun. The device was adopted by the German Navy and soon by the navies of other countries as well. Anschütz-Kempfe worked experimentally for the most part, not possessing the ability to formulate the functional principles he discovered with the means of analytica

Object Details

• Alternative title: Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe: a pointer of ways
• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Deutsch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion ; nicht begutachtet ; In: Deutsches Schiffahrtsarchiv ; 25 (2002) ; 41-55

Classification and Topics

• Keyword: Anschütz-Kaempfe, Hermann ; Anschütz-Kaempfe, Hermann ; Gyroskop ; Gyroskop ; Erde

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Mannheim
• (when): 2002
• Creator: Broelmann, Jobst

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-50360-4
• Rights: Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Last update: 15.08.2025, 7:25 AM CEST