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In the months following Jean Bernard Leon Foucault's early 1851 demonstration in Paris of the earth's diurnal rotation with a vibrating pendulum, members of the entire scientific community, as well as ...
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Houston Museum of Natural Science's Foucault pendulum has stopped after decades of swinging. Here's what happened.
Houston Museum of Natural Science's Herzstein Foucault Pendulum has stopped after decades, and museum visitors are wondering why. The pendulum at the museum is attached to a 61-foot-long cable. It ...
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