General Assembly Lobby has a Foucault pendulum given to the UN by the Netherlands in 1955. The Pendulum offers visual proof of the rotation of Earth on its axis. It was presented by the ...

The United Nations headquarters in New York City has one, while the largest Foucault pendulum in the world, Principia, is housed at the Oregon Convention Center.

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 ...