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List of Foucault pendulums

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This is a list of Foucault pendulums in the world: Wikimedia Commons has media related to Foucault pendulums. Technisches Museum Wien, Vienna St. Ruprecht...

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Foucault pendulum

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demonstrate the Earth's rotation. Foucault pendulums today are popular displays in science museums and universities. Foucault was inspired by observing a thin...

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Pendulum

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pendulums Blackburn pendulum Conical pendulum Cycloidal pendulum Double pendulum Double inverted pendulum Doubochinski's pendulum Foucault pendulum Furuta...

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Allais effect

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Ukrainian team, two independent short ball-borne pendulums for a Romanian team and a long Foucault pendulum for the third team. All three teams detected unexplained...

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Manchester Conference Centre

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a pendulum reminiscent of a Foucault pendulums, but ironically it is not a real Foucault pendulum as it doesn't precess. Instead, once the pendulum is...

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PUCRS Museum of Science and Technology

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mineral resources Brazilians, some with thousands of samples. Paleorrota Geopark List of Foucault pendulums "Museu de Ciências e Tecnologia da PUCRS - Porto...

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Umberto Eco bibliography

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(1988; English translation: Foucault's Pendulum, 1989) L'isola del giorno prima (1994; English translation: The Island of the Day Before, 1995) Baudolino...

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Gyroscope

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in electronic devices. It takes the idea of the Foucault pendulum and uses a vibrating element. This kind of gyroscope was first used in military applications...

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List of experiments

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Doppler effect. Foucault pendulum (1851): Léon Foucault's creates a pendulum to demonstrate the Coriolis effect and the rotation of the Earth. Michelson–Morley...

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List of dynamical systems and differential equations topics

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Wronskian Loewy decomposition Pendulum Inverted pendulum Double pendulum Foucault pendulum Spherical pendulum Kinematics Equation of motion Dynamics (mechanics)...

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Casaubon

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first name given), character in Foucault's Pendulum, 1988 novel by Umberto Eco Casaubon, the name of a character in several of Mary Gentle's works This page...

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List of scientific demonstrations

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electrostatic generator Shooting a candle through a plank Foucault pendulum — demonstrates the rotation of Earth Ammonia fountain — introduces concepts like solubility...

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Jacopo

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protagonist of the prequel The House in Fata Morgana: A Requiem for Innocence Jacopo Belbo, one of the main characters of Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto...

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List of inventions named after people

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Flinders bar – Matthew Flinders Foley catheter – Frederic Foley Foucault pendulum – Léon Foucault Francis turbine – James B. Francis Franklin stove – Benjamin...

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List of atheist philosophers

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author of Foucault's Pendulum and The Name of the Rose. Paul Edwards (1923–2004): Austrian-American moral philosopher and editor of The Encyclopedia of Philosophy...

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List of inventors

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direct suction tracheotomy tube Jean Bernard Léon Foucault (1819–1868), France – Foucault pendulum, gyroscope, eddy current Benoît Fourneyron (1802–1867)...

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List of postmodern novels

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Bonfire of the Vanities (1987) by Tom Wolfe Libra (1988) by Don Delillo Wittgenstein's Mistress (1988) by David Markson Foucault's Pendulum (1988) by...

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List of French inventions and discoveries

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by Jean Peltier. Foucault pendulum by Léon Foucault (who also developed and named the Gyroscope) in February 1851 in the Meridian of the Paris Observatory...

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Umberto Eco

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of the Rose, a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory, as well as Foucault's Pendulum...

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Buhl Planetarium and Institute of Popular Science Building

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housed a thirty-five foot long Foucault pendulum and a ten-inch, Siderostat-type, refractor telescope (now the second largest of its type). The planetarium...

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Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci

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Salmoiraghi refracting telescope, and a Foucault pendulum. The Telecommunication section is dedicated to all forms of modern-era communication from telegraph...

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