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 ...

The Wednesday Google Doodle features an interactive version of the Foucault pendulum in celebration of French Physicist, Leon Foucault's, 194th birth anniversary. Google On Wednesday, Google replaced ...

Google's latest doodle celebrates the birthday of French physicist Jean Bernard Léon Foucault who invented of a pendulum that demonstrated the rotation of the earth. The interactive doodle is based on ...

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 ...

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 ...

At the Houston Museum of Natural Science they recently made a disturbing discovery: their Foucault pendulum had stopped ...

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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 ...

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