Visit to London

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At
Marshall House
28 Wanless Road
London
SE24 0HW

I was warmly welcomed given a conducted tour of the building from the archive on the top floor to the machine tools in the basement. I also had a coffee and a chat.

Then on to see the Harrison clocks at Greenwich (read the book Longitude first)

If there was time left a walk down the hill to the Naval Museum

Edited By Paul Boscott on 26/09/2010 17:30:27

Edited By Sam Stones on 27/09/2010 06:13:36

Edited By KWIL on 27/09/2010 09:24:36

Hi, I know this is an old thread, but yesterday I took a visit to London myself. I managed to get to the Science Museum for a couple of hours or so later in the afternoon and was eager to see if Foucault's Pendulum was still their. Well apart from the whole layout of the museum being totally changed since my first ever visit, indeed they still have the Pendulum. Instead of markings engraved into to the floor (as I remember it) it has two raised quadrants opposite to each other, separated by a small circular block. One quadrant is marked out in degrees 0 to 90 and the other quadrant is marked out in time 10.00 hrs to 18.00 hrs.The pendulum is 22.45 metres long and is keep in motion by an electrical impulse system.

There are a few more photo's of some other items that may be of interest to you, in my Science Museum album.

Regards Nick.

Foucault's Pendulum? memories from very young having a set of Children's Encyclopedia in which was a very atmospheric drawing of the Pendulum. Made my first visit to Paris for a training conference about eight years ago and the boss agreed to my staying over for a night stop. Grabbed the Metro with no idea where to go, so booked to the first station I recognised - Notre Dame. Left the station and wandered - saw a big church on top of a slope , popped in and found myself in the Pantheon memorials to the French greats, Victor Hugo et al and ... suspended from the ENORMOUS dome - Foucault's Pendulum - the original!!! Selected for the original experiment, apparently, because the suspension length (300'?) would allow it to act as though it was detached from the Earth.Quite, quite amazing.

Like the lathe, I imagine it had a lot of work done to it before going on display, we hav'nt come that far in the last 200 years have we. Ian S C

A visit to ABBEYWOOD SE29AQ on the south bank of the THAMES to see 4 enormous steam engines 42 feet beam 25 foot dia flywheel .one has been restored and can be seen in steam (check to find out when.)These are the engines which were desined by Joseph Bazaljette and made by J.Watts to pump the sewerage from London.

There is road works going on so check to see what is happening.