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Ludwig Obry was an Austrian engineer and naval officer of the Austrian Navy who invented a gyroscopic device for steering a torpedo in 1895.The gyroscope was invented by Leon Foucault in 1851 but industry ignored the device for nearly 50 years. In 1895 or 1896 Obry rediscovered Foucault’s device and adapted it into a mechanism for steering a torpedo. This increased the weapon’s accuracy from hundreds to thousands of yards.
