Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-08-22
EARTH WABBLINGs.
A WISE MAN MAKES DISCOVERIES
 WITH A PENDULUM.

An Unsuspected Motion Indicated by Tests
 In COlorado's Elevated Capitol - This
 Same Scientist Once Had an Experience
 In Switzerland.
 1 It is curious old contrivance, this world of ours It has more motions than almost any other eccentric body, and the more it is studied the more motions it has. First of all, it travels about the sun; then it takes a whirl~of it's own accord around itself, like top; then it wobbles from one end to the other, just little bit, it is true, but enough to make motion. Now it has another quirk, and what that quirk is goodness only knows. The new Quirk does not exist at the equator, but it docs at the north pole. It Is very slight at sea level, but up i'll the mountains it is quite per ceptible. Anybody can see it if he wants to, this newly discovered movement of the world.
 Suspended from the lantern of the state capitol building, which is that tall, thin tower on top of the dome and reaching into the subbasoment is wire. It is of steel, One-siXteenth of an inch thick, and on the end of it is plumb, filled with wet sand and weigh ing about D pounds. A wise man who once had similar contrivance working in Switzerland has started this ono in the capitol dome. His observations in Switzerland got him into no end of trouble. He said tho world mado such and such movement, or rather that his pendulum did, and as the big pendulum | 6 thnn hn hn do it amid its many other remarkable acts. But the astronomers came down on him like thousand of bricks. They hauled out their papers and their tele scopes, their spCctroscopes, their picro- scopes, their ulgcbras and everything else they possessed and proved that the experimenting scientist was not only wrong, but quite wrong.
 He said his pendulum described all ellipsc. The astronomers said it did nothing of the kind, if not intcrfered with, and tho worst of it was they proved it. Now he haS proved it him self and although it reverscs his former position he iS immensely pleased with the result uf his observations. Tho OK pertinent made in the Alps several years ago and that just made in the dome of the capitol is simple and very beauti- ful one.
 | The long pendulum was suspended and the center of gravity dctcrminctl- | that k, q spot was marked which was exactly beneath the suspvnsOry at the top of the lantern. Tho pendulum was then carried in a straight line l6 feet to the north uI the center of gravity and released. This gave a full swing of 32 feet. As any 0ne would suppose, the pendulum went as clock pendulum | does, backward and forward, but slowly 1 it left the straight north and south course through the center of gravity, veering toward tho west Little by lit tie the end of the swing, which should have always swung back to the north, if it was to keep mp the figure described by clock pendulum, gradually crCpt west, until it went through IL degrees when it was swinging from south rU north. Then it crrpt east and around to the point of beginning. Ill IS hours to a minute almost d complete circle had | been described.
 Tho experiment is said tu have been Il complete success. Twice each day tho pendulum was given new impetus, its own weight and natural laws tending to stop II. Before grasplng 1t the scien lists conducting the experiment. would carefully sight between the two points on the basement floor it Was UScillatimg over, and having fixed them to nicety would seize tho plunh carry it to the full l6 foot point and release 1t for an other l2 hours journey. For six days this Was krIt up, and three times did that pendulum make Il complete rrvolu- tion.
 What got the scientist who is now at work in he capitol into trouble ill Swift zerland Was a similar experiment to that he iS now making. He went as near the top of mountain as he could, and from the projecting hough of d tree sus- pended d 800 foot pendulum. He fol lowed there precisely the >umo methods 5 he did in Denver last week, but instead of his plumh travelling in sharp lines back and firth ii Gratrlhrd ;ln cllipsc- that is, il made d long 0.
 This struck the rNpCriluCntVr as be ing d mulvrl,a@ discovery. He wrote about it iu Il most learned manner. His pcndulum did }rcci>rlv what it did ill f the dome of the capitol. IL mado it's $ revolution. but the rllipSc was what ' caused tho imn'n>o excitement and I shook up the astronomers. Now tho OK perimcutrr li;,S decided that the cllil,so was all m'r;l>joucd hv the give which | tho hnuGh "f hi, tron must certainly . have all1wrd. Il" matter how stauch . | the tree. aud hls experiment in the cap ' itnl quite bear, him out i'll this position, I Tho capitol Was selected because it iS r over mule above the sea level, 1t is ah- ' %olut"lv statinuar-. and tho interior is S Fren from 4ll outside interferences. such . 2s drafts or flying projections
 x !22d been sr%lod ch4I tho world has .-c-, t,;-.,,,. = ,,--.4 W>r> .N'lI lrt a. cd about, ard every tiE2c # is t2-cpcred | with something new is discovered. The . fact is that it is all the time shaking s like an aspen. basin of mercury !, | which Assistant Superintendent Griucr of the capitol keeps in the placc mcr- cury being the most sensitive of all liquids, shows the capitol to shake very much Reduced tO common measure ment, perhaps the oscillation iS about decimal ten nauShtS and one of an eighth of an inch but the shake is there be cause the mercury QuivcrS - Denver Republican.
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