175 Years Ago, He Set Out to Prove the Earth Was Spinning. His Experiment Took the World By Storm.

Foucault’s pendulum experiment led to an increase in the public’s interest in both real-life science and science fiction.
Hackaday

What To Do When Your Foucault Pendulum Stops Swinging

At the Houston Museum of Natural Science they recently made a disturbing discovery: their Foucault pendulum had stopped swinging for the first time since its installation in the 1970s. (Video, ...
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 ...
Science Daily

Foucault revisited: Argentinean scientists show how to build a pendulum for any classroom

A Foucault pendulum is a simple device for observing the Earth's rotation. While such pendulums have been around for more than 150 years and are a staple of the modern science museum, they are ...
Medicine Buffalo

UB helps pendulum get back in the swing

The Buffalo Museum of Science's impressive 75-foot Foucault pendulum is no longer out of commission, thanks to the efforts of a professor and undergraduate student in UB's Department of Physics. The ...