They employ everything from magnets, pendulums and electricity to dancing, awkward social interactions, algae and a cow eyeball.

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This change could, he reckons, affect a gravimeter, but it cannot account for the results from the pendulums.

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It had two styli connected to pendulums joined to a wire and could reproduce writing on an electrically conductive surface.

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Leave lawyering to lawyers, but when pendulums swing sometimes they return like wrecking balls smacking those who previously prodded the pendulum.

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Their long, heavy arms, good for hanging from branches, act as pendulums to swing their weight forward as they uncoil from the crouch.

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Organizations, whether banks, other businesses, or whatever, behave like pendulums.

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