Google today is celebrating the 194th birthday of French physicist Léon Foucault with an interactive, homepage doodle of his famous pendulum. The pendulum was used to demonstrate the rotation of the ...

Today’s Google logo is an interactive image of Foucault’s Pendulum, a device created by French physicist Léon Foucault who was born on this date 194 years ago in Paris, France. The 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Foucault pendulums are a popular feature in science museums around the world. This one hangs out in the National Museum of Science and Technology in Milan, Italy. Photo: sylvar/Flickr __1851: __ Léon ...

Google today is celebrating the 194th birthday of French physicist Léon Foucault with an interactive, homepage doodle of his famous pendulum. The pendulum was used to demonstrate the rotation of the ...