10 September 2007

Foucault pendulum


After a 24 break today I got back into the tourist things and spent the day in the SE corner of the Marais district. I am in the NW corner. Like hundreds of tourists I wander the streets, map and guide book in hand looking at the buildings and ending up in the beautiful Place de Vosges.

Also finally got to Arts et Metiers Museum across the street from where I live. This is a real blokes museum, all types of trades and crafts including steam engines, bridge making models and early automobiles.
It also has a Foucault pendulum, that demonstrates the earths rotation by not only swinging side to side but oscillates.