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 ...
Happy birthday, Jean Bernard Leon Foucault, and thanks for the pendulum. The French physicist and inventor was born in Paris on this day in 1819. It may be hard to fathom, but the idea of Earth ...
FOUCAULT PENDULUM UPDATE....LA Times reporter Bob Pool goes the extra mile and does what I didn't: he picked up the phone and asked Edwin Krupp, the director of the Griffith Observatory, why the pegs ...