Foucault's pendulum
Foucault's pendulum the huge pendulum hung from the roof of the Panthéon in Paris in 1851 by the French physicist Jean Bernard Léon Foucault (1819–68), to demonstrate the rotation of the earth.
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Foucault's pendulum