“As we move forward along the gadget-strewn path of mechanization,” a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist once wrote, “we become more and more aware of its general theme: do it the hard way.” The year ...

Gravity is, at heart, a mystery. Yes, we can talk about curvature of space-time and perhaps make analogies with stretched rubber sheets. But we don’t know why mass causes space-time to curve. To put ...

Introduction Did you know that playground swings can provide a good lesson in physics—as well as lots of fun? The back-and-forth motion of a swing is an example of a pendulum. We see pendulums in ...

This half-pendulum half-harp musical instrument is the creation of New York based interactive design company, Pattern Studio. Dubbed "The Gravity Harp," it was commissioned by Icelandic musician Bjork ...

Charles Sanders Peirce, a practicing scientist and proponent of philosophical pragmatism, began the gravity program of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey in the early 1870s, at a time when his father ...

Can a pendulum swing in space? It might if it is quantum powered – a fact that could be exploited to build tiny timepieces that exploit an unusual force that occurs on the smallest scale in a vacuum.

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Thomas C. Mendenhall, who became ...