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 ...
Medicine Buffalo

Dramatic Foucault Pendulum to be Installed at UB

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The Physics Department in the University at Buffalo's College of Arts and Sciences will install a dramatic, 25-foot-long Foucault Pendulum extending from the third floor of Fronczak ...
The Durango Herald

Foucault pendulum installed at Fort Lewis College

Invented by French scientist Léon Foucault in 1851, the pendulum consists of a polished ball weighing 200 pounds swinging from a three-story cable over a compass rose on the floor beneath it. As the ...
Radio France Internationale

Towering Scientists: Foucault’s pendulum and Earth’s rotation

In 1851, the French physicist Léon Foucault provided an experimental proof of the Earth’s rotation using a pendulum. Although Foucault is best known for this ingenious experiment, he also made several ...
techtimes

Foucault Pendulum: Here's the 171-Year Old Invention that Proves the Earth Rotates and Spins

The year is 1851, and doubts regarding the Earth spinning is also a massive one, as many people argue over this activity of the planet and how it relates to other entities in the galaxy. However, the ...
Smithsonian Magazine

How Does Foucault’s Pendulum Prove the Earth Rotates?

A replica of Foucault's famous experiment at the Museo Nazionale della Scienza e Tecnica in Milan, Italy Wikimedia Commons On February 3, 1851, a 32-year-old Frenchman—who’d dropped out of medical ...
KSAT

There are only 6 Foucault pendulums in Texas. Why is one at a San Antonio middle school?

San Antonio – There are only six Foucault pendulums in Texas and one is at a middle school in San Antonio. Usually reserved for museums and universities, David “Tex” Hill Middle School has a Foucault ...
SiliconRepublic

Léon Foucault’s pendulum illustrated in interactive Google Doodle

Today, Google’s homepage honours French physicist Léon Foucault on what would have been his 194th birthday with an interactive animation of the Foucault pendulum in action. Born 18 September 1819 in ...
Wired

Jan. 7, 1851: Foucault Gets the Swing of Things

__1851: __ Léon Foucault uses a pendulum to demonstrate the rotation of the Earth. It is the first direct visual evidence not based on watching the stars circle in the sky. Jean Bernard Léon Foucault ...
Miami University

Back in the swing of things: Foucault Pendulum in motion at Kreger

Miami’s physics department may have gotten a new house last year, but it never really felt like home — until now. Missing was the department’s famed Foucault Pendulum. It couldn’t be moved from Culler ...
insider.si.edu

Foucault Pendulum

The Foucault pendulum which was displayed for many years in the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History was removed in late 1998 to make room for the Star-Spangled Banner Preservation ...