At the Houston Museum of Natural Science they recently made a disturbing discovery: their Foucault pendulum had stopped swinging for the first time since its installation in the 1970s. (Video, ...
The first Foucault’s pendulum I ever saw was at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, the city where I was born. The pendulum hung in a stairwell. Its wire was attached to the ceiling four stories ...
Earth's Rotation Day commemorates the significant discovery by French Physicist Leon Foucault. In 1851, Foucault proved that Earth rotates on its axis, using a swinging pendulum famously called ...
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