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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The interactive doodle is based on the Foucault pendulum - a radical device he created to demonstrate the effect of the earth’s rotation - and allows users to manipulate the swinging bob according to ...

In 1851, Leon Foucault demonstrated the Earth’s rotation to the world with a magnificent pendulum in the Paris Pantheon. In 2010, that pendulum crashed to the Musée des Arts et Métiers’ marble floor.

__1851: __ Léon Foucault uses a pendulum to demonstrate the rotation of the Earth. It is the first direct visual evidence not based on watching the stars circle in the sky. Jean Bernard Léon Foucault ...

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 ...

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 ...