Houston Museum of Natural Science’s Herzstein Foucault Pendulum has stopped after decades, and museum visitors are wondering ...

In the 17th century, Christiaan Huygens, inventor of the pendulum clock, noticed a curious phenomenon. When two identical pendulum clocks are mounted next to each other on a wall, their swings ...

The answer is yes. Yes, you can get a value of pi using a pendulum. Well, you need a few other things. Of course, this is the experimental part of my previous post on the connection between pi and the ...

As a rule, Donald Saff doesn’t collect clocks he can’t see inside of. It’s the harmonic entanglement of gears—and the skill needed to craft them—that first lured him to horology, the study of ...

Reaction wheels are useful things, typically used by satellites to keep themselves oriented the right way up in space. Turning the reaction wheel creates an equal and opposite torque in the spacecraft ...

Nicholas Blackwell and his father went to a hardware store about three years ago seeking parts for a mystery device from the past. They carefully selected wood and other materials to assemble a ...

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