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unusual facts about Pendulum


Pendulum

As first explained by Maximilian Schuler in a 1923 paper, a pendulum whose period exactly equals the orbital period of a hypothetical satellite orbiting just above the surface of the earth (about 84 minutes) will tend to remain pointing at the center of the earth when its support is suddenly displaced.


Allais

Allais effect, claimed anomalous precession of the plane of oscillation of a pendulum during a solar eclipse

Borgo Storico Seghetti Panichi

As well as the palms, these include a miniature oriental landscape featuring Styphnolobium japonicum “Pendulum” and Prunus, and a large Cycas revoluta.

Centrifugal pendulum absorber

This resulted in the Pratt & Whitney R-2800 engine that used pendulum weights attached to the crank shaft.

Charpy impact test

In 1901 Georges Charpy proposed a standardized method improving Russell's by introducing a redesigned pendulum, notched sample and generally giving precise specifications.

Christopher Titus

Chris Titus dedicated his entire Norman Rockwell is Bleeding special and an episode of his show Titus ("The Pendulum," where Christopher is in a coma following a racecar crash and Ken played by Stacy Keach narrated the episode, "Christopher's Neutral Space") to his late father.

Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel

Winkel was born in Lippstadt,1777, settled in Amsterdam shortly after 1800, and in 1814, while experimenting with pendulums, he discovered that a pendulum weighted on both sides of the pivot could beat steady time, even for the slow tempos often used in European classical music.

Dogs On Acid

Following the success of Pendulum's Slam and Hold Your Colour, Fresh decided to release a compilation CD entitled Jungle Sound Gold Edition.

James Elmes

In 1813-4 he restored the top part of the spire of Chichester Cathedral, reconstructing the pendulum device incorporated into it by Sir Christopher Wren to counteract the effects of strong winds.

Jon Briggs

Jon Briggs also provided the narration for the start of the drum and bass song "Blood Sugar" by Pendulum.

Knife Party

Knife Party's first EP, 100% No Modern Talking, was released digitally through Pendulum's imprint record label EarStorm.

Konstantin Konstantinov

In 1847 Konstantinov created a ballistic rocket pendulum, which would allow to establish a law of changing rocket motion in time.

Little Pendulum Island

Together with Sabine Island (formerly Inner Pendulum Island), it constitutes the Pendulum Islands, named by Douglas Charles Clavering’s 1823 expedition, during which the Irish scientist Edward Sabine swung the pendulum on the largest of the islands (Sabine Island).

Narberth, Pembrokeshire

The town's cultural and arts centre, the Queen's Hall, has recently played host to live bands such as Therapy?, The Blockheads, The Automatic, Sonic Boom Six, Skindred, Send More Paramedics, Pendulum and Enter Shikari.

Pendulum Films

Pendulum Films was a film production company based in Auckland Park, Johannesburg.

Pre-election pendulum for the Australian federal election, 2010

The following pendulum is known as the Mackerras Pendulum, invented by psephologist Malcolm Mackerras.

Same Place the Fly Got Smashed

In James Greer's book Guided by Voices: A Brief History: Twenty-One Years of Hunting Accidents in the Forests of Rock and Roll, Pollard calls this album his favorite lyrical album citing the lyrics for "Pendulum" as "my favorite lyrics I've ever written."

Self-steering gear

The most widespread form of self-steering, the servo pendulum, was introduced to cope with the power required to operate a larger rudder and was a successor to the servo trim tab principle (introduced by Herbert "Blondie" Hasler).

Solar eclipse

Similarly, Saxl and Allen in 1970 observed sudden change in motion of a torsion pendulum, and this phenomenon is called the Saxl effect.

Stay Too Long

The Pendulum remix was also used on the video game Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit, and a short version is used on the video game The Sims 3: Pets trailer.

The Pit and the Pendulum

In a 1970 episode from the animated cartoon series The Perils of Penelope Pitstop, entitled "London Town Treachery", the Hooded Claw has captured Penelope and attempts to kill her using a pendulum that swings lower and lower, as in Poe's story.

The 2009 horror film directed by David DeCoteau bears little resemblance to the original story but, like the 1961 version, utilizes the large swinging pendulum in the penultimate scene.

Ultralight trike

A fellow countryman of Mike Burns, John W. Dickenson, made ski-kites and eventually partnered with Mike Burns to improve the ski-kite; he formatted a ski-kite that used what could be found in the 1929 George A. Spratt simple triangle control bar or A-frame with single-point pendulum weight-shift control.

Voodoo People

The song has been covered by Refused and British funk band 6ix Toys as well remixed by Pendulum (see Voodoo People (Pendulum Remix)) and other known and less known artists such as Eskimo, Alvaro and Shayning.

Warriors Dance Festival

Headlined by The Prodigy, the event was held over two stages with mainstage performances from Pendulum, Chase And Status, Does It Offend You Yeah!, Enter Shikari, Doorly, Zane Lowe and Eddy Temple Morris.


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