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 ...

The gently moving jewel swaying inside the new Ernest E. Tschannen Science Complex is a Foucault pendulum – shiny and slow-swinging, it is a piece of old-world technology the likes of which have kept ...

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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 ...

Advanced Placement Physics students at Avon Lake High School have been working on a multi-year project to construct a giant Foucault pendulum, which visually demonstrates the Earth’s rotation on its ...

HOUSTON — The Houston Museum of Natural Science is most assuredly a gem, but it's far from hidden. Instead, we're talking about a feature hidden in plain sight: Foucault's Pendulum. Dropped right in ...