Abstract: An angular velocity sensing device having a pair of bendable piezoelectric crystal members encounters undesirable effects due to linear acceleration. To buck out the sensing device signal component representing this effect, a compensating device having its own piezoelectric bendable crystal is mounted to the same spin axis shaft as the angular velocity device, in fixed offset relationship thereto, so that it generates a buck out signal in phase with the undesired signal component from the angular velocity sensing device.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for determining the eventual elongation property of a copper wire which has been cold drawn with an intermediate anneal and which is to be subsequently subjected to a predetermined heat treatment by a final in-line continuous anneal. Before a sample length of such wire is elongated to its breaking point in a tensile testing device, a capacitor is discharged through the wire length to produce a heating current flow therethrough of a magnitude and duration that produces a heat treatment of the wire length which approximately simulates that which would be the result of the final in-line continuous anneal. For this purpose, the wire holding devices of the tensile testing device have contact means to establish connection of the wire length in a discharge circuit for the capacitor.