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photocompar.jpgIn 1916 and 1917 Fr. Pigot carried out the first ohotographic Foucault pendulum experiments in the southern hemisphere. The experiment was first carried out at Riverview with a 40-foot pendulum and then in the dome of the Queen Victoria Building in Sydney with an 85-foot pendulum.  The pendulum bob and one of the records are now in the musuem of the Vatican Observatory.

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